Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Student coordinators representing five major ethnic groups--Asian Americans, blacks, Latinos, Mexican Americans and Native Americans--work with the admissions office to increase minority enrollment at the College...
...with the number of early applications from African-American and Mexican-American students jumping 27 and 23 percent respectively, it seems the personal touch has been persuasive...
...months she had produced her first translators' list. Often consulted, it is now published on the Internet. "Thousands of people have been assisted by the list since its inception," estimates Barbara Vaughn, public information director for Charleston. Translators have helped Cuban boat people stranded in port, sick Mexican migrant workers who couldn't communicate with hospital staff, Vietnamese schoolkids who couldn't understand instructions and a Norwegian sailor who ran away from a hospital, scared that his ship would leave without...
...General Accounting Office, Congress's investigative arm, is not usually known for producing page-turning whodunits. But the agency's report on Friday recounting Citibank's money dealings with Raul Salinas, the Mexican presidential brother who's been rumored to have links with drug lords, comes close. "The report is stark, unvarnished, and best of all a good read filled with details," says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne. "It tells how investigators believe the bank showed Salinas how to hide $100 million...
Just getting there was no easy feat, since Guymon, which calls itself "An American Original," is located in a less than convenient spot--320 miles east of Santa Fe, N.M., 335 miles west of Tulsa, 125 miles north of Amarillo, Texas, and 500 miles from the Mexican border. The nearest bus stops are in Liberal, Kans., 40 miles to the north, and Stratford, Texas, 40 miles to the south. As was the case in Albert Lea, the freshly arrived immigrants had no place to stay, and the town that had never had a homeless shelter was forced to open...