Because it will have a huge knock-on effect for all those people who are on the border line, who are just getting by, if the Fed raises that rate they're going to be in trouble.

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Kurds on both sides of that border depend on trade that crosses the line.

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That suggests people believe the crisis will be defused, as happened after previous flare-ups on the UN-mandated Northern Limit Line, the disputed maritime border.

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China has long-term plans for more extensions of the line, to Nyalam on the border with Nepal and to Dromo near Bhutan and the Indian state of Sikkim.

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The crash happened just before 5 p.m. on an above-ground track on the Red Line in the District of Columbia near the border with Takoma Park, Maryland.

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It is also increasingly difficult to argue that a person on one side of a border should be taxed, taught and ruled differently from a person on the other side, when the line separating them no longer exists.

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Instead, he writes about his astonishing experiences as a front-line surgeon (and, for many years, as a medical trainee) in a country on the border between first and third world medicine.

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