Word: reach
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...million. They account now for about 7.9% of the nation's population. Most trace their roots back to Mexico (63%), Puerto Rico (12%) and Cuba (5%); the rest to the nations of Central and South America and the Caribbean. By the year 2000 their numbers are expected to reach 30 million, 15% of the whole. And roughly one-third of all U.S. Hispanics intermarry with non-Hispanics, promising the day when the two cultures will be as tightly entwined as a strand...
...very good American theater." After writing two books in Spanish, Novelist Roberto Fernandez has just published his first in English, Raining Backwards, a comic account of Cuban life in Miami. "I did it for the same reason that Miami Sound Machine sings in English," he explains. "I wanted to reach a wider audience...
...America, she tells her daughter Rosa, you will find money, cars, TV, even indoor plumbing. "You flush it, and everything vanishes!" And so in Gregory Nava's 1983 film El Norte, Rosa and her brother Enrique embark on a perilous pilgrimage toward the golden north. When they eventually reach California, they do find honest work and small incomes -- the money dreams can buy. But it is a rasping irony to possess so little when surrounded by too much. Up close the dream looks fragile and fraudulent. You crush it, and everything vanishes...
...adds that by 1994, the number of college-agestudents in the nation will reach an all-time low,which may mean that it might be easier to get intocollege, but not necessarily into Harvard. For atthe same time, Fitzimmons notes, more studentsthan ever are applying to the Ivies...
...American Baptists have been reexamining their abortion position for some time. Complaints from members about A.B.C.'s affiliation with the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights eventually led the Baptists to withdraw from the lobby in 1986. A.B.C. leaders hope their new statement can help other denominations trying to reach the elusive compromise that will appease both sides. "They said it couldn't be done; it would blow us out of the water," says Gloria Marshall, who chaired the American Baptist task force that produced the compromise. "Now it's a model for other denominations on how to work together...