Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American banker and a Mexican homemaker, he grew up in Mexico City and played baseball well enough to be drafted by the then Kansas City Athletics after attending a prep school in New England. At his father's insistence, Richardson left baseball behind and chose Tufts University, ending up with a master's degree in international relations. After a three-year stint as an aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he moved to New Mexico to run for Congress...
...Fast food. As in McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. If students are willing to go all the way to Porter and Central Squares for a Big Mac, they'll definitely be willing to trek to the bottom of Memorial Hall. Kill the overpriced Mexican and pizza places; keep the popular sweet shop (although extend its hours) and the coffee shop with its needed caffeine jolt...
Although most applications for admission are read by three admissions officers, applications submitted by students of certain minorities--African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans and Puerto Ricans--are read a fourth time...
...Cameron won't yield when it comes to getting his vision on the screen. At the moment he is several hundred miles south of Hollywood, filming at the Mexican beach town of Rosarito on a 40-acre site dominated by a massive 750-ft.-long re-creation of the ship--a hulking shell built almost to scale. It rests in a 17 million-gal. tank, and will be lowered into the water by degrees. Tonight's shoot takes place on the poop deck, which can be tilted as much as 90[degrees] by hydraulic lifts. This...
...centralized authority to the point where he was regarded as the strongest Speaker in eight decades, Gingrich is now moving to return more policy-setting freedom to committee chairmen and has promised to consult more closely with members before taking controversial stands, as he did on Bosnia and the Mexican bailout...