Word: bordering
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Here's how peace will spark upheaval: Middle Eastern governments will no longer be able to justify huge military expenditures (often made to secure their own rule) or defer public demands for more freedoms and better living conditions by invoking border defense, territorial mandates, nationalism or cultural honor. So they'll spend the next quarter-century confronting--or being confronted by--the forces already changing the rest of the world...
...cash flow of the arms industry in various former Soviet states. The U.N. Security Council late Wednesday unanimously approved a one-year embargo on the supply and maintenance of weapons to both countries in a bid to bring an end to the latest round of fighting in a border war that has cost tens of thousands of lives over the past two years. "Realistically, though, everybody knows that the embargo won't end the fighting now because both sides have stockpiled enough weapons to wage war for the next two years," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But cutting...
...Holbrooke over the weekend described the conflict as "an old-fashioned border dispute," but this one has a flavor particular to a continent whose political map is riddled with straight lines depicting borders established with pencil and ruler in distant capitals during the colonial era. The Ethiopia-Eritrea border dates back to a 1902 treaty between Italy, which had colonized Eritrea, and Ethiopia's King Menelik II, which for the most part used rivers to separate their respective territories, but drew a straight line in the vicinity of Badme to connect two rivers. That straight line disappeared from many maps...
...which doesn't have the same stringent body of laws governing behavior on computer systems as exist in the U.S. and some other industrialized countries. Government and business representatives from the G8 industrialized nations met in Paris Monday to discuss proposals for dealing with a new generation of cross-border, or more correctly, borderless crimes - after all, the Love Bug was a sharp and painful reminder that if the concept "place" exists at all on the Internet, then cyberspace allows us to be everywhere at once, and a nasty little worm freed in a suburb of Manila can within hours...
...wrote in his award application that he feels a special connection with children from war-torn regions because of his family background. Garland's mother grew up on the Thai border during the conflicts in Southeast Asia...