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Word: mexicanization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cascading is just a nice way of saying minorities are being shut out of the best U.C. campuses. And it means that fewer minorities will graduate with the elite credentials that would help them become top doctors, lawyers and business leaders. "Some people don't believe African-American and Mexican-American students deserve to be at these institutions," says Ted Shaw, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. "That should be refuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Field Is Level | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

After more than five years, local Mexican restaurant Be Bop Burrito has closed its doors to customers and given up its Garage location to the Boston Chowda Company, which plans to open a branch in the space on September...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BeBop Burrito Closes Doors | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

After more than five years, local Mexican restaurant Be Bop Burrito has closed its doors to customers and given up its Garage location to the Boston Chowda Company, which plans to open a branch in the space on September...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BeBop Burrito Gives Way to Chowda Company | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...this, add the drug problem. On May 5, police stumbled onto the biggest drug bust in city history--a ton of cocaine valued at half a billion dollars--and arrested two Mexican nationals. A federal drug official told the Arizona Republic, "Phoenix has arrived...as a drug transshipment point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...crazy enough to do this job. And then three weeks later, officer James Snedigar was shot dead as his SWAT team moved on an apartment in the nearby town of Chandler. Two of his three assailants, one of whom was killed, were identified as members of the New Mexican Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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