Word: borderers
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Mizuno is now stepping up the pace. In February the company began production at a $3 million plant in Juarez, Mexico, that taps inexpensive Mexican labor and exports golf bags across the border. "The U.S. sporting-goods market is four times larger than Japan's," says Masato. "I'm confident that we can carve out a niche." Such assurance is typical of Masato, a flamboyant manager who drives a red 1965 Ford Mustang convertible to work. Says an aide: "He's a fireball...
...held in such cells by the South Lebanon Army, the Israeli-sponsored 2,500-man militia that rules Israel's self-proclaimed security zone. Most of the prisoners are Lebanese Shi'ites. Many are members of Hizballah, caught while attempting to attack SLA positions and patrols or Israeli border settlements. Some were arrested by the SLA security apparatus for interrogation. None have ever been charged or tried. Some will be released if their interrogators decide they are innocent. But for most, the only chance to get out will come when someone makes a deal to swap them for Israeli...
...soon as ordinary people from Dresden and Potsdam, wearing tennis shoes and loaded with plastic bags and perambulators, were seen hobbling through the underbrush across the Hungarian border in the fall of 1989, crowding embassies in Warsaw and trains in Prague, there were raised eyebrows and mixed feelings in Bonn and elsewhere. For there is nothing dearer to the heart of responsible statesmen than stability. Yalta may have had certain drawbacks, but it was an arrangement one had learned to live with -- and in the end any situation seemed acceptable as long as it was "under control...
...earlier. East Germans moved beyond the oranges and bananas, so popular when the Wall first came down, to consumer electronics and cars. Everywhere, new brand names began to beckon: Panasonic, Miele, Zanussi. Magdeburg became Marlboro country. The West German chain Spar opened a supermarket 40 km east of the border and stocked it with Western goods. East Berlin got its Benetton...
...Shiro Kuramata for $8,900. The furniture fills high-priced housing. A no-frills single-family house in choice areas of Baden-Wurttemberg or Bavaria averages about $300,000, a one-bedroom apartment rarely less than $160,000. The most reasonably priced region is along the East-West border, but even there the market is tight...