Word: borderers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months later I re-entered the U.S. via the Canadian border, and today I'm proud to say that the work I did on the KDC case has made a substantive difference to the company...
...that will affect your efficiency," he consulted me. "A key strategic variable in this case could be the exchange rate of the Swedish kroner." I asked him to explain. "This is a different world," he informed me, "a world that requires us management consultants to operate in a genuinely border-less fashion. We must be able to embed these programs into a complex, sustained, multi-year effort to change the way your corporation functions at all managerial levels." I told him that I was interested in deciding whether to make...
Argentina may want to consider getting itself some new neighbors. First Brazil's crippled economy brings doom to its border; then Uruguay's hormonal teenagers keep PAMELA ANDERSON from crossing it. The remarkably cantilevered V.I.P. star was set to visit Argentina after filming a commercial in Uruguay but cut her tour short after being swarmed by hundreds of randy Uruguayan boys eager to cop a feel. Following a press conference, the teens shouted vulgarities at poor Pam, then attempted to grope her. Unnerved, Anderson fled back to the relative safety of the States, where teenage boys are happy just...
...COSTS HEADING DOWNHILL If you're dreaming of hitting the slopes before the powder melts, you might want to head north of the border. With the Canadian dollar near record lows, ski resorts like Whistler in British Columbia and Mont-Tremblant in Quebec are offering the best deals. A five-night, four-day stay at a Whistler hotel (including lift tickets) costs about $400, while a trip to Vail or Aspen goes for $500 to $700. No wonder visitors to Colorado's slopes, which until recently were beset by weak snowfall, are down 11% this year. That means, of course...
...forth with last year's The Healing, a quiet, sweetly engaging novel that took a National Book Award nomination, readers found themselves surprised as much as delighted. Jones returns with the story of a black female truck driver in south Texas who winds up in an effort to harbor border crossers. Mosquito is a carnival of digression and free association, though, with the plot hijacked for paragraphs, if not pages, by muddled tangents. Questions of racial identity provide an interesting subtext to the story, but they aren't probed much. Still, in rare moments, Jones' virtuosity grins...