Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael P. Tsosie '86 sat on the Phoenix-Boston flight answering the questions of a middle-aged woman about Harvard. Suddenly she turned towards him and said: "Are you Mexican...
Sandberg and the rest of the Cubs were on a cruise off the Mexican coast when the award was announced...
...indebted oil-producing countries, including Venezuela, Indonesia and Ecuador, a decline in prices would be painful. In Mexico, which depends on petroleum sales for 70% of its exports, a $2-per-bbl. price cut would produce a $ 1.1 billion drop in an annual oil income of $15 billion. Thus Mexican officials accompanied Yamani on his travels last week even though their country is not an OPEC member. Yamani announced that both Mexico and Egypt said they would cut their own output in support of OPEC's plan...
...MEXICO'S politics, to the uninitiated observer, are odd, even contradictory. The state has a heavy population of national minorities, with American Indians and Mexican-Americans logging in at 7 and 33 percent respectively. The state is also the country's seventh poorest, with 17.4 percent of its residents living below the poverty line. One would expect a heavy liberal bias among the state's elected officials...
...similar phenomena may have begun where Chicano students are concerned. For the previous five years Harvard had had very stable Chicano acceptance and matriculation rates. (Sandoval labeled this phenomena a "tacit quota system" to limit the number of Mexican-American students a figure respectable to other prestigious East Coast schools.) Last year saw a record number, more than half of thoseadmitted, however, choose to go elsewhere...