Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goaded into action, EPA officials commandeered a Coast Guard cutter last week and were en route to a rendezvous with the barge when they got word that the Mobro was headed for Mexico. But there too it was turned away; the Mexican navy even went on alert to repel the Yanqui rubbish...
...Mexico with her new husband Charles Gomez. Earlier this spring, when Courtney Gomez applied for a new job with the Government through a temporary agency, she was told the agency would not send her on any interviews until she produced the necessary documents. "I kept saying, 'I'm not Mexican,' " recalls Gomez. "But all they said was 'We can't help you until you have a birth certificate.' " The new law, says INS Executive Associate Commissioner Mark Everson, will make more changes in the way Americans lead their lives than perhaps any legislation in recent memory...
...stamp out the incentive for aliens to enter the U.S. illegally, the law cracks down on businesses that offer them jobs. Beginning June 1, every employer in America, from the Beverly Hills housewife who takes on a Mexican gardener to the Lower Manhattan garmentmaker who hires dozens of Chinese seamstresses, must become a kind of INS agent. Employers must demand such documents as a U.S. passport or birth certificate, proof of naturalization or a resident-alien card, and then complete an I-9 verification form for each employee...
...admissions office accepted 15 percent of its 16,883 applicants. Of those admitted, 9.4 percent were Black, 7.9 percent were Mexican-Americans, and 17.1 percent were Asian-Americans. Stanford also accepted more women, 45 percent of admitted students, than last year...
Parkinsonism, characterized by tremors, stiffness and a gradual loss of muscle control, is caused by the death of brain cells that produce dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter. If the results of the Mexican doctors are repeated, the transplanted cells taken from Baggett's adrenal gland should produce enough dopamine in her brain to alleviate her Parkinson's symptoms. At week's end it was still too early to tell if the operation was successful. But Baggett already knew that she had contributed to medical progress. "All along I felt like the good Lord gave me Parkinson's disease for some reason...