Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land of the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals and the Final Four successfully host the world's most popular championship in cities where soccer fields number less than minituare golf courses...
...came to China unprepared to understand the phenomenon of a 6000-year history--I had never studied the language, the culture, the history. Before the trip, "Cultural Revolution" was synonymous in my mind with a popular Core course--one that I hadn't taken...
Westerners have not so much adapted to their environment as they have defied it and remade it. This has required the region's Senators and Governors to sink deep wells into the federal treasury and draw forth sprawling, multibillion-dollar water-moving and -storage schemes (notwithstanding the popular image of Westerners as self-reliant and suspicious of meddlesome Government). Thus in the midst of the current nationwide drought, the 74 golf courses around Palm Springs, Calif., have plenty of cheap federal water to keep their sprinklers hissing, while Arizona farmers can afford to grow water- intensive crops like alfalfa...
Cardenas, 54, whose sagging jowls and doleful eyes give him the appearance of a bloodhound, is far from a leftist rabble-rouser. His speeches are often as dour as his looks. But his message -- declaring the need for a change of both government and policies -- is popular at a time when Mexico's economic problems slice deep into the purchasing power of its poor. By some estimates, real wages have fallen to the levels of the early 1970s. Particularly well received is his call for renegotiation of Mexico's $103 billion foreign debt...
...independence. "This is a red-neck, white-sock county, dogs in the back of pickups, everyone wants to carry a gun," says a longtime political observer. The county seat of Prineville (pop. 5,250) is a "detour down a back road," to lift a line from a country ballad popular there. Lumber trucks and pickups rumble through the town's four traffic lights, which feel the strain of traffic only during hunting season. The lone presidential candidate to visit the county was John Kennedy, in 1960. Such splendid isolation breeds self- sufficiency and a pervasive distrust of government...