Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it will fan U.S. inflation by raising the price of imported goods and the American- made products that compete against them. But the U.S. imports more from Canada and Mexico than from Germany and Japan, and the American currency has actually risen against the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso. A further rise in interest rates might hurt the U.S. economy, by making consumer purchases and business investments more costly to finance, much more than it would help by restraining import inflation...
West, newly wooed from Princeton University,will be on leave for the entire academic year.Kelly, Lee and Bowditch Professor of CentralAmerican and Mexican Archaeology and EtymologyWilliam L. Fash will be on leave this fall...
...anyone deserved the win, it was the team's coach, Bora Milutinovic, who in previous Cups had spurred weak Mexican and Costa Rican squads into the quarterfinals. The quasi-mystical Serb disdains star quality for teamwork and emphasizes the Latin strategy of zigzagging moves over the British long-ball style. Above all, he makes his players believe in themselves against the world. "He's a mix of Richard Simmons and Yoda," says Lalas. "It requires a great leap of faith to follow him. Sometimes you have no idea what he is saying." Typical Yoda quote: "We don't know what...
Manuel Camacho Solis, the chief negotiator for the Mexican government with peasant rebels in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, resigned after accusing the government of trying to sabotage his efforts to find a settlement with the mostly Mayan Indians. Five days earlier, the rebels rejected the peace settlement he had proposed. The trouble in the peace talks could affect the Mexican presidential election, which will take place...
This is not to argue that poverty is the way to control population, but to point out that policymakers, in their eagerness to embrace a politically correct approach to a sensitive issue, frequently ignore what determines family size. This brings us back to the question of the Mexican mothers...