Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Actually last year I figured out how to make something that tastes just like Mexican fried ice cream. It's very simple: you take vanilla fro-yo and cover it with Just Right cereal. And this year I've gotten far bolder. After the salad bar thing worked out, I spent some time experimenting with sushi...
...understand why Raza or the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) might have challenged Kovacevich. United Farm Workers (UFW) purported to speak on behalf of Mexican migrant and immigrant grape workers and for improved labor conditions (never mind that most grape workers chose not to join the UFW). It is less clear what motivated groups like UNITE, Education 4 Action, Phillips Brooks House Association, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance, and Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan. (Those last two seem especially peculiar, but hey, why exclude people from the party...
McLaughlin will join the team for a preseason trip to Mexico over spring break, which will afford him his best opportunity to make a positive impression on Rongen. Unfortunately, he will have to do it in exhibition matches against Mexican First Division powers Guadalajara Chivas and Atlas. Rongen's expectations are realistic, though...
...more than rhetoric. Looking around the hostel at the American women--me, a mainly Eastern European jumble; a girl from Baltimore, whose mother was Japanese and whose father was white; the girls who had just arrived from Wisconsin, one black, one white; a girl from Texas whose family was Mexican--one had to conclude, at the risk of sounding obviously idealistic, that there is no appearance that constitutes an "American" girl. Which would it be? For our generation, these women are Americans, plain and simple...
When MATTHEW MARTINEZ (D., Calif.), an affable ex-Marine who represents a swath of suburban Los Angeles, attended the White House luncheon for Mexican President ERNESTO ZEDILLO last November, he had something that President Clinton wanted: a potential vote for the fast-track trade bill. And Clinton had something Martinez wanted: power to approve the $1.4 billion Long Beach freeway extension, blocked by environmentalists and historic preservationists for two decades. When a Clinton lobbyist approached him, Martinez was ready: "Why should I vote for fast track when it's like pulling teeth to get anything from [the President]?" Martinez recalls...