Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...populism, Lazaro Cardenas abandoned Chapultepec Castle, in which the Emperor Maximilian and nearly all subsequent Mexican rulers lived. Instead, the President, his wife and his son -- who was named for the last Aztec emperor and whose name is pronounced Kwa-tay-mok -- moved into Los Pinos, a white stone box set in a corner of Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. "I have only isolated images of it," says Cardenas of his boyhood home. "But one thing I do remember: I was given every possible opportunity to succeed...
...instead of 40 workers we have 17." At the new Hyatt Regency, the management closed several floors and dispatched the general manager to the U.S. to drum up business. And, notes Executive Assistant Manager Moshe Sand, "we no longer advertise that we are a stone's throw away from the holy sites...
...niche in American history when Civil War veterans rode West looking for work. Thousands of real hoboes continue riding, including illegal aliens and men running from the law. They constantly exchange weather advisories, news of police activity and bulletins on available work. Jungles often have chairs, kitchenware and neat stone-edged fireplaces. One even has the beginnings of a library, a copy of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King resting on a rail spike driven into a tree...
...abolition of corruption, the national debt, inflation and pollution. At a recent rally in Mexico City, speakers emphasized that P.A.N.'s support crossed class lines. But there were few Indian faces among the thousands present, and gold crosses and religious medallions were worn conspicuously along with designer clothes and stone-washed jeans...
...English garden with piles of ivy and wisteria will add some majesty to the estate. Never mind that few climates in the U.S. could conceivably produce the soggy consolation that England provides its gardeners. What weather cannot provide, clutter can. So there is a thriving market in gazebo kits, stone dogs with baskets in their mouths, gates, bird feeders, Gothic porches and dovecotes...