Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mass. Ave.): As the only national chain which has a drinking establishment in the Square. Chi Chi's might ring a bell for out-of-towners. For Southwesterners, or for those with a special liking for the Mexican fare, the half-mile walk down Mass. Ave. towards Central Square is well worth it, especially during happy hour, from 10-1 on Friday and Saturday nights, and 9-12 during the week. Chi Chi's offers cut-rate Margaritas, and the staff lays out a sumotuous nacho chips and spicy dip buffet...
...would fail into the same initial rejection pattern. Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received an internationally publicized invitation but was unable to accept. Instead, he offered a text, selections of which President Bok read at the June 9 ceremonies And as a result, the official address was delivered by Mexican writer ambassador Carlos Fuentes...
Nothing seems to go far toward breaking the old Mexican pattern of maldistribution of wealth or bridging the vast chasm between rich and poor. Meanwhile the population keeps growing at a rate of 2 million annually. That increases pressure on authorities to deliver more jobs and social services. It also increases U.S. worries about a tide of illegal aliens...
Right now, one of the few things relieving some of the pressure on the Mexican government seems to be a widespread attitude of ni modo, a fatalist mood of "nothing can be done about it." Even labor unions are not optimistic about getting big wage increases. They had been asking for a 50% hike but probably will get only 20% at best, even though inflation has chopped the buying power of the average worker by 60%. Working union members seem happy enough just to have jobs. Two weeks ago, attempts to get a general strike off the ground fizzled. While...
...character can appear, simultaneously, in as many fictions as the random may require." This is meant to explain why characters who die in Duluth can reappear in a TV show of the same name or a romance novel by a Rosemary Klein Kantor. Duluth is dislocated along the Mexican border next to "the winding Colorado River that empties into palm-lined Lake Erie...