Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Similarly, the men's golf team, fresh from its Mexican voyage, can only simulate its game within the confines of a small cage. With sports so directed and dependent upon the outdoor environment, it is no surprise that the mental toughness of the athletes soon becomes the focal point of training, as frustration must be kept in check...
...gifted-students program, he drifted in and out of schools in Los Angeles, West Hollywood and Orange County, picking up the nickname "Pee-wee," for a purported resemblance to Pee-wee Herman. Eventually, Markhasev found his way to L.A.'s mean streets, where he allegedly hooked up with Mexican gangs, picking up their slang and behavior. In 1995 he was sent to probation camp for six months, reportedly after being charged with possession of marijuana and assault with a deadly weapon. Now he may face the death penalty...
...think that McDonald's in Loker is a good idea," she said. "I'm not fond of the pizzas, and the Mexican place is closed most of the time. The current food is not top quality so McDonald's would definitely be preferable...
...advice given to aspiring writers is to "write what you know." In one sense, New Mexican author Tony Hillerman has done that very well; his accuracy and skill in portraying the Navaho religion and culture in his best-selling mystery novels has won him the "Special Friend of the Dineh" award. But the name of the award is important: Hillerman is not of the Dineh, and in choosing a Navaho narrator, he enters a potential mine field the old adage is designed to avoid...
...part, Mexico, even as its diplomats fulminated about the dire consequences of decertification, took action to give Clinton cover. On Wednesday police arrested a drug trafficker named Oscar Malherbe de Leon. On Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan...