Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there any natural sex enhancers available? someone else asks. Absolutely, Weil answers. Men can try the Indian herb ashwagandha, which literally translates as "smells like a horse" but may pay back in sexual vigor whatever price it exacts in aroma. Women might consider damiana, the dried leaf of a Mexican plant that has a reputation as an aphrodisiac...
While I support the right of strawberry pickers to work in humane conditions, their unionization is a complex issue. Many migrant workers are Mexican citizens who are in this country on seasonal work permits. Whether they deserve guaranteed health care at the expense of the American tax-payer is not clear. Further, any unionization is bound to have far-reaching economic consequences. Harvard students should decide on an individual basis whether or not to support the goals of the strawberry pickers. More importantly, HDS does not deserve the right to dictate whether or not students can actually consume strawberries...
...council has rightly joined the call of numerous businesses, including Star Market and other supermarkets nationally, to highlight the lack of clean drinking water, health insurance and basic sanitation in the agricultural camps. Many of the strawberry workers are Mexican migrants legally working within the United States. These workers deserve basic humane treatment, regardless of their occupation, nationality or citizenship status...
...them. It will be a tough sell. Although the Administration can show positive numbers from the agreement -- NAFTA-generated trade among the U.S., Mexico and Canada reached a record $420 billion last year -- Congressional opponents led by Richard Gephardt counter by citing 118,000 U.S. jobs lost to cheaper Mexican labor. Most telling, opponents say, is that under NAFTA a $1.4 billion trade surplus in 1994 has plummeted to a $15.4 billion deficit. Congressmen are also unhappy that fast track has prevented them from adding labor and environmental safeguards to the pact, and vow not to let that happen...
DIED. EMILIO AZCARRAGA MILMO, 66, aggressive Mexican broadcasting magnate who built the $1.5 billion Televisa radio, TV, publishing and music conglomerate into the Spanish-speaking world's largest media empire; of cancer; in Miami. Known as "El Tigre," he dominated Mexican television news for decades, steering coverage to support the longtime governing party...