Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ghost of Tom Joad, is his best in years, it's because Springsteen has turned his attention once again to the downtrodden. The songs on the new album are about desperate lives along the Mexican-American border. Each is like a short story; several unwind without choruses. On Sinaloa Cowboys, Springsteen sings of two illegal immigrants who fall in with drug traffickers (he manages to rhyme "ravine" and "methamphetamine"). His sound--somewhere between Springsteen's stark Nebraska album and his serenely wrenching hit Streets of Philadelphia--is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, harmonica and keyboard...
...descendants of 25 individuals trapped in New York's mountains in 1975 and resettled. A similar program, begun in 1972 in the Berkshires, has given Massachusetts a thriving population of 10,000 turkeys. (The Butterballs in the Safeway freezers, incidentally, are descendants of a strain of wild Mexican turkeys domesticated by the Aztecs and taken by Spaniards to turkeyless Europe, then brought back to the New World. Wild turkeys taste pretty much the same--fewer chemicals, more satisfaction--but lack fat, so they profit from slathering with bacon...
...first is America's already immense and growing commercial involvement in the world beyond its borders. Americans spend more than 10 billion minutes a year on international phone calls. Travel abroad is exploding. About 20% of the U.S. economy now depends on international trade. The Mexican peso's collapse has sullied NAFTA, and makes it harder for Washington to argue the instant benefits of free trade. But the trend toward international economic interdependence is inexorable, and those who participate--some 10 million Americans owe their jobs to exports--are a natural constituency for more robust U.S. leadership...
...paychecks but on the guys and gals who have to make them stretch for a whole week. If in recent years Springsteen had lost touch with his proletarian passions, he's rediscovered them with "The Ghost of Tom Joad," a new collection of songs about desperate lives along the Mexican border. "This album has the power to haunt," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Springsteen's sound, which is somewhere between his stark 'Nebraska' album and his serenely wrenching hit 'Streets of Philadelphia, is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, a harmonica and a keyboard...
Traders' uncertainty over Mexico's economic-recovery plans drove the country's currency to a record closing low of 7.80 pesos to the dollar despite the Mexican government's best efforts, which included raising short-term interest rates nearly 11 points...