Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such fruits as papayas, mangoes and kiwis can no longer be considered exotic. "I sell 100 cases of kiwis a week, with 33 in each case. That's 3,300 kiwis," he marvels in disbelief. "The yuppies will buy items that are different, regardless of price." Pointing to a Mexican green-skinned cherimoya ($6.50 each), which resembles a large hand grenade and tastes like a creamy apple (hence the , nickname custard apple), Seybert says, "I sell 80 lbs. a week. My head is not trained for this...
...country is still a long way from having all of its $12 billion in hand. The IMF is asking commercial banks, which already hold 75% of the Mexican debt, to provide $6 billion of the new credit. The bankers, who were stunned at the size of the request, say that negotiations on the terms of the loans could take months. But large creditors like New York's Citicorp ($2.8 billion already on loan to Mexico) will almost certainly have to go along with the IMF in order to reduce the risk of a default...
...with a couple of skiffs propelled by small outboards. Sometimes they would even play in the mother ship's bow wave. Now, in areas where dolphins have been heavily fished, they are much more difficult to corral, forcing the fishermen to resort to more and higher-powered chase boats. Mexican fishermen call these recently sophisticated dolphins the "untouchables," because they disappear at the first sight of a fishing boat. The discerning mammals are apparently able to tell the difference between fishing vessels and other craft, because they still approach small sailboats or motor cruisers. Still, marine biologists complain that...
...whose rhetorical bark outweighs his political bite. In 1984, when the Administration was successfully backing Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte for the presidency of El Salvador, Helms loudly supported Far Right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was reputedly linked to the country's death squads. More recently, Helms has assailed Mexican officials as being corrupt and dealing in drugs when State was trying to cool the cross-border feuding...
...Tapas leave you hanging. They give you a little bit so you have to have some more," says Fernando Martinez, a Mexican who works as a restaurant chef in Washington but snacks off-hours on miniportions of mussels in vinaigrette sauce, meat-filled puff pastries, and avocado stuffed with shrimp at El Bodegon, a Spanish restaurant in the capital. Jose Lopez, one of the owners of the successful El Bodegon, reports that tapas got off to a slow start in % Washington three years ago. "The biggest problem was people not knowing about tapas," he says...