Word: bordering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Mounties have focused instead on breaking up the organized-crime groups that have broken into the business. Gangs ranging from outlaw bikers to Latin American and Asian gangs are moving into B.C. pot cultivation--and also into lucrative cross-border smuggling and distribution. The Mounties have been busting more and more large-scale operations, often located in warehouse-size buildings, with strings of light bulbs as bright as stadium lights and computer-controlled hydroponic systems for fertilizing and watering several hundred plants. The smugglers move the stuff on every conceivable conveyance--over back roads in four-wheel-drive vehicles, through...
...most important reason for e's quick and recent spread into places like Denver and Sacramento is that professional criminals have almost completely assumed control of its trade. The life of a typical tablet found in the U.S. begins somewhere along the Dutch-Belgian border, a quiet region of pig farmers. The setting is rural but not far from the Brussels airport. Manufacturers convert abandoned barns or garden sheds into e factories, which can be filthy. "They've been mixing chemicals in dirty cans I wouldn't even use for garbage," says Charles De Winter, director of the drug section...
...enforcement agencies have doubled and redoubled over the past 2 1/2 years. "They're killing us," says Mike Flego, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's office in Blaine, Wash. Seattle customs enforcement chief Rodney Tureaud Jr. agrees, "We could double our numbers at the border and still be understaffed...
...major consolidation--the $198 billion proposed takeover of German mobile-phone provider Mannesmann by British giant Vodafone AirTouch will surpass the AOL-Time Warner/deal as the largest merger ever. The most auspicious development of the past year, given Europe's historic fragmentation along national lines, is the cross-border merger. Aventis is the new, conspicuously neutral name for what used to be Germany's Hoechst and France's Rhone-Poulenc. Nor are Europeans confining their targets to the Old Continent. Even a few years ago, it would have been hard to imagine Renault buying Japanese carmaking giant Nissan or Daimler...
...doesn't have U.S.-style mandatory sentencing laws for drug offenses. Law-enforcement officials say most Canadian judges don't view pot cultivation as a serious crime. Says Corporal John Dykstra of the Mounties: "People in the marijuana-growing business want to do business on our side of the border because the risk...