Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...across the hardscrabble state, federal largesse is being ladled out with a generous hand. In the dusty mountain village of San Miguel de Ocosingo, farmer Jacinto Mendoza Lorenzo proudly displays a pair of brand new, apple-green John Deere tractors parked in front of his thatched hut. The vehicles were purchased by Mendoza's ejido, or communal farm, on easy-credit terms arranged by the government. Gazing at the precious tractors, Mendoza says, ``We're interested in working, and the government seems to be interested in helping us do that...
...cars and trucks -- up from fewer than 4,000 last year. From January to June, U.S. exports to Mexico rose 17%, to $24.5 billion, and Mexico's exports to the U.S. went up 21%, to $23.4 billion. Big business south of the border has blossomed as entrepreneurs like Jose Mendoza Fernandez, president of Bufete Industries, the second largest construction firm, find new clients in Canada and the U.S. Planning ahead, Mendoza linked up with U.S. partners six years...
This year, both teams are well below the Mendoza line--the .500 mark, that is--and out of contention for the Ivy League championship...
...example, is a big, boisterous comic with a lot of stage presence -- or, at least, presence over a lot of the stage. Unfortunately, her ABC sitcom, Thea, is a throwback to the broad, brackish family sitcoms of the Good Times ilk: streetwise sass drenched in sentimental mush. John Mendoza, who plays a newly divorced sportswriter in NBC's The Second Half, is a mellower, and less accomplished, performer, who is also defeated by tired gag situations -- the inept single guy who can't furnish an apartment or get a date without stumbling over his feet...
...first glance there's little sign that anything unseemly could ever happen in this city. Little surprise, then, that a few years ago Spanish author Eduardo Mendoza called his novel about Barcelona "The City of Wonders." The city seems a more cheerful but more real version of Walt Disney World...