Word: mexicans
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...northwest of Douglas. But when six family practitioners decided they couldn't afford the soaring malpractice premiums required for them to keep delivering babies, the hospital was forced to close its delivery room. Suddenly rural Cochise County, a 6,000-sq.-mi. expanse of mountains and desert along the Mexican border, had but one delivery room left for its 118,000 residents. It is in Sierra Vista, 50 miles northwest of Valdez's home. Which means that a week before her Aug. 4 due date, Valdez will pack her bags and camp out at the home of family friends near...
Bush talked more about the poor in 2000 than any major presidential candidate I'd seen in years. There were times he left his country-club audiences befuddled by his fervent tributes to reading labs in poor schools and to the aspirations of Mexican immigrants. After he was elected President, Bush surrounded himself with excellent people who cared about the poor--people like John DiIulio and David Kuo, who ran the faith-based program office; the speechwriter Mike Gerson and his then deputy, Pete Wehner. (Caveat lector: several of them are close friends of mine.) I figured this...
...next year, he worked with University President Lawrence H. Summers, then undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury, to rescue the Mexican banking industry with a $20 billion U.S. loan...
...compartment, Barenson suspected that a proposal might be coming soon. “I’m not good at surprising her,” Lederman says, “but I was going to do it before we left.” So, after a dinner of cheap Mexican food, he brought Barenson out to the balcony of their room and proposed to her. Conspicuously unsurprised, she said...
...says his favorite dishes come from Chinese, Italian and Mexican cuisine...