Word: wiring
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Mention Western Union to an American, and chances are he or she will think of telegrams and maybe that '60s frat-rock song of the same name. But in the rest of the world, Western Union means money. Having converted its wire traffic from text messages to cash, Western Union increasingly serves as a rough-and-ready bank for millions of migrant workers who send part of their pay to loved ones back home, whether from an Arizona broccoli field to a Mexican village or from a Saudi oil field to Bombay. As the pace of global migration quickens...
...gets a call from his two sons, who are working illegally in Georgia. They give him a code number, and he drives or rides his horse four miles to the nearest Western Union, located in a government telegraph office, to pick up the $600 they spent $40 to wire to him. Less expensive remittance services are available at the nearby Banamex bank in Mazatepec, but so far, Patricio and his neighbors aren't willing to travel the eight miles to get there. Besides, he says, "we do not trust the banks, and they make everything more difficult...
...Wendell Pierce. Even crooked union boss Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer) is more pitiable than loathsome--he's a dinosaur and knows it--and his underlings are the blue-collar counterpart to last season's no-hope drug soldiers, who are on the scene this year too. If The Wire depicts a war on crime, it is World War I, its weary sides facing off in the trenches, with little hope of victory or reward. The cops soldier on anyway, driven less by idealism than stubbornness. They deserve recognition. And so does TV's hardest-working drama. --By James Poniewozik
...people that way. There's a wall of merchandise around the outside, and then they can see into the inside from there." At the Container Store, based in Dallas, with 28 outlets in 15 markets, "Our product selection is pretty wide: it's small, it's big, it's wire, it's solid, and it would be extraordinarily confusing if it weren't presented in an organized way," says chairman Garrett Boone. His solution: a U-shape layout that "allows people to pass all the departments in the store, both on the sides and in the center." Ikea, based...
...enduring relic of the cold war: more than 15,000 U.S. troops stationed just south of the Korean peninsula's Demilitarized Zone?well within range of North Korean artillery. But the trip wire?the boots-on-the-ground guarantee that an attack on South Korea would automatically bring U.S. intervention?may soon be gone. Last week, Seoul and Washington announced U.S. troops will pull back at least 50 km to bases south of Seoul over the next few years. It makes military sense?a few thousand grunts were never going to block an invasion by the 1.1 million-strong North...