Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honor the doomed men who made a stand at the Alamo 150 years ago, some 500 San Antonians and visitors gathered at a commemoration of the historic event last week. All the nearly 200 defenders, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, died at the hands of 4,000 Mexican troops. Little more than a month later, General Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans, and Texas had won its independence. The revelers heralded the Alamo's last stand with a deafening musket salute. But the sesquicentennial celebration had its irony. Today, more than half of San Antonio's population is still...
...Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado declared in a speech Feb. 21 that his government can tighten its belt no further and that it is time for some "sacrifices" from international bankers. The President proposed that Mexico's payments be reduced to what it can afford, but he offered few specifics. Some Mexican officials have hinted that the country wants a stretched-out repayment schedule and a reduction in the average interest rate on its loans from 10% to 6%, which would reduce its annual debt-service load by $4 billion a year...
Things aren't all that bad, though, because he finally rejoins the ranks of the gainfully employed when he becomes a bicycle messenger for Quicksilver (hence the title of the movie). There, he meets up with aspiring capitalist Hector Rodriguez (Paul Rodriguez), a happy-go-lucky Mexican who's biding his time at Quicksilver's until he has saved enough money to purchase a hot-dog cart and work his way up the ladder of success...
...five-man team competition, the Harvard A team--composed of the Crimson's number four through number eight players--reached the finals but was decisively beaten by a Mexican squad...
...team, which defeated entries from Army, Western Ontario, and Penn to reach the finals, was overmatched against the Mexican squad, which featured five of the country's top players...