Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connect 'N Save also offers a 35 cent rate to Mexico. Other international calls can be made through the service, though the rates are not competitive: AT&T plans to add additional special country rates in the future...
...sick to death of people talking about the "boom" in the U.S. economy over the past few years [SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 14]. What boom? There hasn't been one, except maybe for the CEOs of companies that have downsized or gone to Mexico and reaped the profits. I am the disabled wife of a man who lost his job at Rockwell in the first wave of layoffs in 1990, and I have watched him go through a series of low-paying temp jobs ever since, his morale getting lower and lower. Washington, are you listening? KAREN SEXTON Orange, Calif...
...started out (remember the time when every cast member would have still passed the Rorschach test with fewer than six Oedipal references?) She was petite, had lovely chestnut-colored hair, deep brown eyes, a smile that wrinkled the corners of her eyes and mouth. She pronounced the "x" in "Mexico" the way you're supposed to say the "J" in "Juan," took photographs with more gusto than Annie Leibowitz and played a mean game of cards...
After much thought, I've discovered that learning Spanish and studying the history of Mexico are purely academic pursuits, not excuses to impress women. This girl piqued my interest in Mexican culture because she was Mexican herself, not so much because she talked about Mexico or Mexicans particularly. It was just that after meeting her, I recognized that even though Harvard has a healthy Latino population, as well as courses on Latin American culture, I knew nothing of that culture and sincerely wanted to learn. In other words, that girl was the alpha or the catalyst to my interest...
After wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, Hurricane Georges swept through the Florida Keys, across the Gulf of Mexico and yesterday hit land again on the Gulf Coast...