Word: borderers
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...federal judge. The explanation is disturbing: according to a report in the San Diego Tribune, when Mexican authorities recover stolen vehicles, they sometimes put them to their own use. This is especially true, says the U.S. State Department, of automobiles stolen in the U.S. and driven across the border. One Mexican federal policeman reportedly paid thieves $1,000 for a 1989 Chevy Blazer. Its normal resale price...
...often closer than Calais. British companies typically invest $1 on acquisitions abroad for every $3 they spend at home, an astonishing ratio considering that the equivalents for France and Japan, runners-up in the takeover league, are 1 to 16 and 1 to 79 respectively. A survey of cross-border takeovers by KPMG Peat Marwick accountants last year showed that British companies spent four times as much on foreign takeovers as their nearest rivals from France and Japan. Nowhere is this activity more evident than in the U.S. The U.S. Commerce Department puts total direct foreign investment...
...subcontinent in 1947. Kashmiris have again shaken life into the dispute with a rebellion against Indian rule that has cost nearly 600 lives so far this year. The struggle has produced not only talk of war but also an escalation of military moves on both sides of the border...
Whatever the full extent of Islamabad's involvement, it is clear that members of rebel groups like the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front cross the border from India, sometimes under covering fire from Pakistani troops, buy weapons in Pakistan's open arms markets, seek military training with the mujahedin in Afghanistan and return to Kashmir to fight on. India, doing its best to seal off the uprising, has increased its paramilitary forces in the region from...
Each morning at 8:15, students at the Walcott School, located near the New Mexico border in the Texas panhandle, hunch over their desks and busily scribble on their work sheets. There is absolute silence. Keith Meiwes, a fourth-grader who was once intimidated by math, is now doing seventh- and eighth-grade classwork. Melissa Meyer and Amy Perrin also credit Kumon with their new success in math. "This program has helped to give them self- confidence, a better self-image and motivation," says principal Bill McLaughlin. Nonetheless, Walcott teacher Cathy Fury finds most students still need...