Word: chihuahua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane, make sure that you put on your Julie the Cruise Director smile and purr, "Hi. Welcome aboard Continental and thanks for busting the union. How are you doing today?" Feign interest until the passenger feels comfortable enough to describe how he ran over his lifelong pet chihuahua on the way to the airport...
...border itself. At Ernest Hurt's ranch just east of the Continental Divide and an easy horse ride to the Antelope Wells border post, Carlos Chavez Perez, 46, works as a cowboy for $450 a month, about six times what he could earn at home in Chihuahua. Like the Palomas dentist or the assembly-line maquiladora worker in Ciudad Juarez, Chavez eats a lot better doing the gringo's chores than he would doing...
...Twist-inspired musical set in New York City. The animals speak with the voices of such stars as Billy Joel, who plays a jivy artful dodger (sample line: "Consider it a free lesson in street savoir faire from New York's coolest quadruped"), and Cheech Marin, who plays a Chihuahua named Tito. Says George Scribner, the film's director: "We don't write down to children. They're generally way ahead...
...Salinas' success may depend on how quickly he distinguishes himself from his predecessors. While charges of ballot fraud, patronage and corruption have long dogged the P.R.I., the allegations are growing dangerously heated. Last year the situation turned particularly bitter after closely contested mayoral elections in the northern state of Chihuahua, a stronghold of the conservative National Action Party, the largest of the eight opposition parties. Afterward a P.R.I. official conceded, "We may have won the elections, but we have lost the people...
...candidate perceived as least likely to brook internal dissent is Manuel Bartlett Diaz. After successfully coordinating De la Madrid's presidential campaign, he was designated Secretary of the Interior. In that capacity, Bartlett, 51, had responsibility for overseeing the elections in Chihuahua, which many Mexicans believe were fraudulent. The third hopeful, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Minister of Planning and Budget, is credited with great intelligence and thought to be the most likely of the contenders to favor party reform. But Salinas has some deficits. He is young, only 39. And he has a reputation for dishing out criticism...