Word: bordering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Although cross-border takeovers were widely predicted to be one of the early benefits of the introduction of the euro by 11 European countries on Jan. 1, 1999, there had been few hostile cross-border transactions before last week's deal. In part, the domestic bias of mergers can be explained by the relative ease of making them work when both companies are in a home market. But government intervention, particularly in France and Italy, has kept foreign banks from making planned bids...
...Israel's southern Lebanon security zone. The Israeli air raid came after five Israeli soldiers had been killed by the Iran-backed militia in the past two weeks, and the likely escalation threatens to jeopardize Israel-Syria peace talks. Although Israel had hoped to achieve security along its Lebanon border as part of a peace deal with Syria, pressure is now mounting on Prime Minister Ehud Barak to keep his election promise of withdrawing by July, unilaterally if necessary...
...mystique has spread far. Karen villagers interviewed along the Thai border last week said that the boys could not be hit by bullets and that people who walked with them were immune from harm. They cited cases of followers who stepped on land mines that failed to detonate. "The twins have special powers," asserts Plee, 20, a Karen woman who grew up in Johnny and Luther's village. She has taken refuge in Thailand, but still occasionally sees the twins. "I am sure they won't be killed in battle," she says. "They are able to control a large number...
...Karen do. "They are just like normal kids," says Avudh Aree, 60, a Karen living across the Thai border who also knows the twins and thinks the stories of their special powers are exaggerated. "They play with dogs and cats, climb trees." Some suspect they are manipulated by adults. Members of the mainstream Karen resistance, who are more conventional Christians, regard the twins as little better than heretics. "They aren't God's Army--they are Satan's Army," says Major Mary Ohn of the Karen Refugee Committee. "God has no children with guns." The mainstream Karen rebels have reason...
Barak had promised in last year's election campaign to effect a unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon by July, but with the stalled Israeli-Syrian peace talks unlikely to produce Syrian security guarantees along the Lebanese border, retreat remains risky - and that's a fact not lost on Damascus. "Syria has the ability to shut down Hezbollah, but with no sign of movement in talks with Israel over the Golan Heights, it may have little incentive to do that," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Hezbollah, though, has its own reasons for raising the temperature. It wants to boost...