Word: tio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifetime. To them, the U.S. remains a sort of fabulous offshore branch office. Says Andujar: "I love the United States. Every 15 days when I get paid, I say, 'God bless America!' " Still, he has built a new home in San Pedro, and on the terrace at Tio Miguel, a waterfront restaurant with a newly installed satellite dish to pull in the games from the States, the owner has permanently reserved Andujar's corner table...
...this proposition that indulgence will soften the hard line of Marxists is dubious in the extreme. While it has been convenient for Castro to blame his problems on a hostile "Tio Sam, "the few occasions on which the U.S. has hinted at a milder, more accommodating approach seem to have convinced him that he had won and that he could go his own way with impunity. And Castro's way, if he gets it in the long run, raises another question that the liberals tend to duck: What happens if the momentum of change in Latin America confronts...
...ailing neighbor looks to Tio Sam for a helping hand
...sheer magnitude of the country's debt; rather than spark widespread financial chaos by declaring a default, international bankers have little real choice but to reschedule Mexico's payments. Finally, Mexico's strategic and economic importance to the U.S. means that the oft vilified Tio Sam can be counted on, once again, to lend a helping hand...
...goes on living and seething beyond his time; a sister with "insufficient resistance to pain of every kind" opts for the lesser agony of suicide. The lonesome cowboy finds purpose only in pursuing Claire, the icy wife of a "vivid . . . piercey-bright, oilman feisty" pseudo-patrón named Tio. The result is McGuane's standard mano á mano struggle in which the prize is less significant than the battle itself...