Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balls were the first debris to hit U.S. waters from the runaway Mexican oil well that has dumped 265,000 tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the biggest oil spills in history-and potentially a major environmental disaster...
...Mexican beaches were the first to be hit. They were spotted last week with giant puddles of crude oil and thick clusters of tar balls. The Mexican government mounted an emergency airlift to carry newly hatched Atlantic ridley turtles, an endangered species of giant sea turtle, from the polluted beaches...
...Veterans Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith. Artfully imitating her own earlier life, Hack will play a Seven Sisters seraph named Tiffany Welles. As such, she has to bite the Angel dust from time to time. In one early scene, for instance, Hack is overpowered by hired killers on a Mexican island; Ladd and Smith, of course, rescue her before the final commercials. Hack at least needed no lessons in how to look stunning when the Angels pause for cherubic cheesecake...
...gray suit who was talking about Cambridge. Lopez says he knew immediately that the man was from Harvard. "I think that any Harvard man that doesn't admit he's kind of proud to be a Harvard is kidding himself," he says. Lopez, who proudly proclaims himself the first Mexican-American graduate of the Law School, has got a bad case of the Harvard disease. "People who are less taken in by the mystique," he says, "are those who've been here." But, of course, there are exceptions to this rule. And Hank Lopez just happens...
...brightly painted room at the airy Methodist Church in Palmyra, Wis., resembles any nursery school. But the kids in Palmyra are not the usual class. Their parents are migrant farm workers, mostly Spanish-speaking of Mexican descent, who travel north from Texas to harvest onions in Wisconsin. Their average wage is $3.40 an hour. Families are on the road during June, September and October, school months for most other youngsters. Migrant children are often left by themselves, to pass the summer days playing in the dirt or escaping the heat under trucks and battered cars, while both parents work...