Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come in. A longtime nurse practitioner from Garden City, Doll also happens to be a Dominican sister who lives in a modest home with two other members of her order. By day, Doll works for two community-health clinics that care for about 1,300 children, most of them Mexican American, whose parents may work but may not necessarily have insurance. In the evening she teaches local nurse-practitioner students how to suture wounds, treat joint injuries and interpret X rays, among other things. "The call to nursing came first, followed by the spiritual call," she says. "Ever since...
...award for best performance this year may belong to Latin America. In the wake of the 1994 Mexican-peso crisis, "the region has really bounced back in a remarkable way," says Nariman Behravesh, chief international economist for DRI/McGraw-Hill, an economic consulting company based in Lexington, Mass. In Mexico, between April and June, the economy surged 8.8% over the same period a year earlier. Growth is expected to hit 6% in 1997 and 4.8% in 1998. Inflation, which reached 34.4% in 1996, will be sliced in half by the end of next year. Brazil's economy will expand 4% this year...
...Princess Diana's death, Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of the New York Times, sat in his office comparing two front pages from the Sunday paper. One had a typically Times-worthy story at the top of the right-hand column--about a new study documenting the number of illegal Mexican workers in the U.S. In the later edition, Diana's death had supplanted it as the lead story. The paper was fast on its feet with the late-breaking news: trucks heading out to the Hamptons, weekend hangout of the media elite, were even turned back so the old edition...
Booths offering everything from African art to Mexican food lined Mass. Ave. from Main Street to Pleasant Street, and musicians performed at nine stages throughout the fair...
Knight moved next to the Commerce Department, where he escorted Molten officials for a briefing by trade officials on Mexican environmental-cleanup opportunities the same year. In July 1996, Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor called Pemex's director general to plug the company and its bid for toxic-waste work in Mexico. Pemex has indicated a strong interest in the project but has yet to announce a decision...