Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, thought to head a ring that shipped up to two tons of cocaine monthly into the U.S., had been sought for years, but was protected by corrupt Mexican officials, according to U.S. drug agents...
...amid models, dressers, seamstresses, hairdressers, makeup artists, lighting technicians and stagehands. "Paint those red lips!" he ordered. "I want you to look like you just got rid of your third husband!" Dashing through mounds of hats decorated with rhinestone Eiffel Towers, past racks of pink minks, turquoise ostrich feathers, Mexican blankets and red sequined gowns, he fusses with a model's hair. He directs a seamstress to stitch a new lining in a fur cape. Three minutes before showtime, Kelly joins hands with everyone for a revival-style prayer: "Thank God for making us be together," he says. "You make...
...commercial banks to reduce some of their Third World loans by allowing debtor countries to make smaller payments on their principal and interest obligations. Brady left many of the plan's details vague, and the initial response from bankers, Congress and Latin American finance ministers was guarded. The Mexican government called the plan a "first positive step" but cautioned that many details still need to be worked out. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, an outspoken critic of the old debt program, called it a "significant change in direction" and declared that the "Baker plan is dead...
...under increasing pressure to find a solution to the debt crisis. Last year Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari won election by the narrowest margin in his party's 59-year history over left-of-center candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas. In Brazil left-wing parties have mounted a serious challenge to President Jose Sarney. And a nationalist party in Argentina could win the presidential elections...
Rhein filled his monologue with witticisms ranging from work at a fast-food Mexican restaurant to religious cults. The budding comedian also poked fun at `traditional' Harvard life, including the cost of books at the Harvard Coop, the lure of MIT `babes' and strict professors...