Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twilight, about 300 illegal immigrants had massed on "the soccer field," a patch of rock-strewn brown earth halfway up Otay Mesa and just across the U.S. border from a rundown section of Tijuana, Mexico. Some bought tacos from a vendor who wheeled a white cart through the crowd; others burned old tires to cook makeshift meals before pushing off into the rattlesnake-infested canyons leading toward San Ysidro, Calif., and points north. Two dozen agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), deployed in Dodge Ram trucks on surrounding hillsides, squinted through binoculars to count the aliens...
...nearby ravine, but by the time the chopper arrived they were gone. Another agent was about to leap out of his truck and arrest three illegals in Moody's Canyon when his radio crackled out news of bigger game: a dozen immigrants heading toward the fields abutting Otay Mesa Road. The patrolman gunned his Ram along rutted dirt paths, dodging boulders placed by pollos to slow him down. When he reached Otay Mesa Road, however, his quarry too had disappeared, presumably picked up by smugglers driving cars or trucks toward El None...
...their 30s or 40s. Jay Higgins, 38, the head of Salomon Brothers' merger department, spent six months working twelve hours a day nearly seven days a week to help Gulf Oil fend off a hostile takeover by a group of investors led by T. Boone Pickens' Mesa Petroleum. The payoff came when Gulf merged with Socal. "Don't get me wrong," says Higgins. "I'm not complaining. But you never know when a deal is going to be done, and it's almost impossible to plan a weekend or a dinner...
...more wineries have learned that a distinctive label can be the decisive factor in selling a bottle. Artful packaging, most notably in California, has become almost as important in the industry as the vintner's art. Says Marshall Ream of the Santa Ynez Valley's Zaca Mesa Winery: "You've got to put on a better suit of clothes to be invited to the party...
...greatest artists of the time, from Picasso to Chagall. A number of smaller American vineyards have now taken label decoration a step further: emphasizing the artwork over the maker's name. Styles include art nouveau, abstract and realistic; at least one vineyard is putting photography on labels. Zaca Mesa uses several styles, clothing some of its varietals with twin panels of golden oaks and distant hills. Says Ream: "If you go into the supermarket-where the industry is headed-you want people to see the label from a distance...