Word: arizonas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ariz., to Saratoga, a suburb of San Jose. Just as I'd become accustomed to a school and a teacher and a best friend, the FOR SALE sign would dig into the front lawn and we'd be packing and off to some other state. I've always considered Arizona, where I was from nine to 16, my real home. For a kid, home is where you have your best friends and your first car, and your first kiss; it's where you do your worst stuff and get your best grades. Scottsdale was just like the neighborhood in Poltergeist...
...Shortly after World War II, three-quarters of all Hispanics on the U.S. mainland lived in Texas or California. As of 1980, those two states still accounted for 51% of the total Hispanic population. But large numbers have also settled in Arizona (16% Hispanic) and New Mexico (36%) and in such inland and Northern...
Familiarity, it seems, breeds tolerance. "The Mexican American in Nogales, Ariz., is not reticent to say he's Mexican," says Paul Bracker, a local businessman. "There is a healthy attitude here toward heritage." Says Robert Stuchen, vice president of the Capin Mercantile Corp., one of Arizona's largest employers: "My kids are not aware of prejudices here in Nogales. We're probably more Mexicanized than the Mexicans are Americanized." Merchant Fred Knechel, president of the Chamber of Commerce in Calexico, Calif., across the line from Mexicali, contends that there are "class prejudices but not racial prejudices on the border...
...minority. In Los Ebanos, Texas, 80 miles northwest of Brownsville, Postmaster Lucio Flores was asked how many of the town's 800 residents are Anglos. Flores held up one finger and said with a grin, "We call him El Gringo." What is happening along the border, says University of Arizona Anthropologist Tom Weaver, is "the Americanization of Mexico and the Mexicanization of America." It is a relatively painless way for neighbors to become friends...
...victory for both lawyers and consumers," exulted Washington Public Interest Attorney Alan Morrison, who argued Zauderer's case before the Supreme Court. Consumers do seem to get benefits from ads. "Where there is lots of advertising, fees are lower," asserts Steven Cox, an economics professor at Arizona State University, who conducted a six-city study of lawyer advertising funded by the National Science Foundation in 1981-82. A larger 1982 study for the Federal Trade Commission compared legal costs in 17 cities. For such matters as simple wills, uncontested divorces and unopposed personal bankruptcies, consumers stood to save anywhere from...