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... allowed you to subdue the Earth under the illusion of gaining some happy plateau after making your conquests, are hardly instincts one can extract. ... ...hep could have had some type of a tom yam tasting popcorn. They called it Mexican." "Why didn't you get a girlfriend and bring her with you? Is... ...e wanted to hit against the wall that entrapped him. It was like he was a Mexican and America had deliberately concocted a wall to keep him out. If o...

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... IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic before the... ...tion of exquisite and valuable gifts -- Cortez refused permission to visit the Mexican capital -- Cortez inflamed with passion -- A meeting in camp --... ... A journey through flowery vales and luxuriant landscape -- First sight of the Mexican capital -- A wonderfully inviting view -- Wealth and splendor o... ...e Mexican capital -- A wonderfully inviting view -- Wealth and splendor of the Mexicans -- Montezuma anticipates his fate -- His offer to become a vas... ...s his fate -- His offer to become a vassal to Charles V -- Cities of the great Mexican Valley -- A scene of bewildering splendor -- How Cortez was rec... ...lies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexico -- A slaughter of Mexicans while at their devotions -- A furious attack upon the Spaniard... ...y ancient peoples, and who make their estimates of civilization from the lofty plateau of the nineteenth century, stand amazed before evidences of gre...

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...ot, dry summers along coast; drier with cold winters and hot summers on high plateau; sirocco is a hot, dust/sand-laden wind especially common in summ... ...a hot, dust/sand-laden wind especially common in summer Terrain: mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain L... ... ber to April) Terrain: narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau Land use: 2% arable land; NEGL% per- manent crops; 23% meadows an... ...d; 31% other Environment: locally heavy rainfall causes periodic flooding on plateau; desertification Special notes: Cabinda is separated from rest of... ...81,860,566 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 2.09% Nationality: noun Mexican(s); adjective- Mexican Ethnic divisions: 60% mestizo (Indian- Spa... ...d Organized labor: 35% of total labor force Government Official name: United Mexican States Type: federal republic operating under a centralized gover... ...shank Garcia; Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM), Pablo Gomez Alvarez; Mexican Democratic Party (PDM), Ignacio Gonzalez Gollaz; Socialist Worker... ...), Pedro Etiene; Revolutionary Work- ers Party (PRT), Ricardo Pascoe Pierce; Mexican Workers Party (PMT), Heberto Castillo Martinez; Authentic Party o... ...ther political or pressure groups: Ro- man Catholic Church, Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), Confederation of Industrial Chambers (CONCAMIN), C...

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... one of the many hotels and sit around the pool bar, sipping Margaritas while Mexican music floated through the air. He was scanning dozens of beauti... ...s written on the piece of paper that Cardona had given him. It was a palatial Mexican villa set on the hillside over looking a majestic ocean. A hos... ...prisingly, no one was there to greet him. Finally, a short, round middle aged Mexican woman wearing a black maids dress and wiping her hands on a wh... ..., of the command and control headquarters of the Cartels. But, what about the Mexicans, plus, all the rest of Central and South America?" "Colombia... ...ween them. The only common denominator, besides drugs, was that they were all Mexicans. Madero, the largest of the territorial drug lords and the ... ...from side to side. 208 J.Cross/Artemis Eventually, the 4 x 4 reached a plateau. "We walk from here," Ky announced. After a few minutes of hik...

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...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. S... ...is transitory phase - from hyperinflation or high inflation to a more supportable plateau - is known as "disinflation". It usually lasts one or tw... ... in Prague last year. The conference was attended by the Czech prime minister, the Mexican president, and the head of the Interpol. The most potent...

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...ticles published hy liiui this sum- mer, one entitled "iSome Little- Known Mexican Volcanoes " which api^eared in the August Popular Science Monthly, ... ...the contents of the July number of the Journal of Geology. The treatise on Mexican volca- noes is illustrated by seven excel- lent cuts made from phot... ...tains by rail and the three months' trip across theranges and the Thibetan plateau was begun. The Vale of Kashmir at the foot of the first range was c... ... cheerful and lavished their poor hospitality on the travellers. From this plateau, the expedi- tion ascended the first of the great passes, which ris...

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...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. ... ...educe or increase the level of activity. This restores the individual to his normal plateau of activity and to a balance of energy. These energetic ...

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...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. ... ...educe or increase the level of activity. This restores the individual to his normal plateau of activity and to a balance of energy. These energetic ...

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...understood or remembered, or felt, or sensed. That first year…becomes the plateau-level of normal agony-pain the rest of its entire life is based... ... sacred God-Given rights of Citizenship? Horrors, never! Better to hate the Mexicans and Latinos who are poor and who work harder than I do to bar... ...ernative the essence of that music… which can act as a catalyst for more plateau-leaps in creativity, and simplicity. So you have to use your ...

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...ng we stopped to breakfast at Toano, a little station on a bleak, high-lying plateau in Nevada. The man who kept the station eating-house was a Scot, ... ...eir affairs by a coin that no longer that no longer exists – the bit, or old Mexican real. The supposed value of the bit is twelve and a half cents, e... ...very in these excursions. I never in all my visits met but one man. He was a Mexican, very dark of hue, but smiling and fat, and he carried an axe, th... ...and up the slope, the night will be dry and warm and full of inland perfume. MEXICANS, AMERICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be wr... ...c missionaries, a place of wise beneficence to In- dians, a place of arms, a Mexican capital continually wrested by one faction from another, an Ameri... ..., to a mere bankrupt village, its rise and decline is typical of that of all Mexican institutions and even Mexican families in California. Nothing is ... .... Only as you approached the coast was there anything to stir the heart. The plateau broke down to the North Sea in formidable cliffs, the tall out- s...

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... wheeling si- lently through the deserted streets of the decayed and dying Mexican town. It was the hour of the siesta. No- body was about. There was ... ...o bar-rooms, the hotel at the corner of the old Plaza, and the shops where Mexican “curios” were sold to those occasional Eastern tourists who came to... ...tel, Presley ate his long-deferred Mexi- can dinner—an omelette in Spanish-Mexican style, frijoles and tortillas, a salad, and a glass of white wine. ... ...n a corner of the room, during the whole course of his din- ner, two young Mexicans (one of whom was astonishingly handsome, after the melodramatic fa... ...ve-song to the ac- companiment of a guitar and an accordion. These Spanish-Mexicans, decayed, picturesque, vicious, and romantic, never failed to inte... ...o Laredo, to Torreon, and Albu- querque. From there across the Uncompahgre plateau into the Uintah country; then at last due west through Ne- vada to ... ...t a clean plate. After dinner, preparations were made for games. On a flat plateau at the top of one of the hills the contestants were to strive. Ther... ...trong, beautiful women? Annixter, Harran, and Presley climbed to the level plateau where the games were to be held, to lay out the courses, and mark t...

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...us the principal mark. Now, right before us the anchorage was bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the north the slo... ...to the rough, cliffy eminence called the Mizzen- mast Hill. The top of the plateau was dotted thickly with pine-trees of varying height. Every here an... ...ass. Thence, bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope towards the plateau. At the first outset, heavy , miry ground and a matted, marish vege... ... thus proceeded for about half a mile and were approaching the brow of the plateau when the man upon the farthest left began to cry aloud, as if in te... ...hole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent. The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had p... ...d gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half- bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering...

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...sing at Sagrado below Goritzia and a 25 H G Wells magnificent rush up the plateau and across the plateau of the Carso. Goritzia itself was not organi... ... upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American papers discussing the Mexican situation. In none of these is there evident any clear realisation ... ...s occurred in military methods during the last two years. It looks as if a Mexican war, for example, was thought of as an affair of rather imperfectly... ...ned young men with rifles and horses and old-fashioned things like that. A Mexican war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But... ...us as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps call a 1916 autumn outfit instead o...

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.... Not quite, however. In the silence of the sleeping camp upon the moonlit plateau forming the top of the pass like the floor of a vast arena sur- rou... ... picks, swing- ing lamps, in a great shuffle of sandalled feet on the open plateau before the entrance of the main tunnel. It was a time of pause. The... ... long cigars; the great wooden shoots slanting over the edge of the tunnel plateau were silent; and only the ceaseless, violent rush of water in the o... ...e thudding march of the stamps pounding to powder the treasure rock on the plateau below. The heads of gangs, distinguished by brass medals hanging on... ...s striding on trestle-legs to the turbines working the stamps on the lower plateau—the mesa grande of the San Tome mountain. Only the memory of the wa... ... a grey sombrero with a silver cord and tas- sels. The bright colours of a Mexican serape twisted 114 Nostromo on the cantle, the enormous silver but... ...- tige. He told me after we made friends at a dance, in a Posada kept by a Mexican just outside the walls, that he had come here to make his fortune. ... ...rist Committee which sits, as far as I know, in a posada kept by a retired Mexican bull-fighter, a great politician, too, whose name I have forgotten.... ... he used to do every evening on his way to play monte in the posada of the Mexican Domingo; or to sit in the place of honour, listening to songs and l...

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...ose formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the mighty sweep of the swampy Amazon more a... ...uring forth its muddy mass of waters, and mingling with the deep blue of the Mexican Gulf. I never beheld a scene so utterly desolate as this en tran... ... great common sewer of the Western America, which pours out its mud into the Mexican Gulf, polluting the clear blue sea for many miles beyond its mout...

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... Charlemagne moors,—uncultivated tracts of land lying on the summit of the plateau which separates the valley of the Cher from that of the Indre, and ... ...to silence with her proud glance, in which I seemed to read the cry of the Mexican: “And I, am I on a bed of roses?” Ever since that day by the gate o...

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...s the last that would suggest the idea of romance. Of all the dull central plateau of the Peninsula it is the dullest tract. There is something impres... ...r lady is lighter than a lanner, and might teach the cleverest Cordovan or Mexican how to mount; she cleared the back of the saddle in one jump, and w...

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...e Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The Strength of the Strong, 373 -- War, 391 -- The Mexican, 398 -- Told in the Drooling Ward, 428...

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... . . 373 War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 The Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Told in the... ... surface of the meadow. It was riderless, though on its back was a high horned Mexican saddle, scarred and discolored by long usage. The man brought u... ...n he indentured himself to labor for five years in the South Seas at fifty cents Mexican a day, he had thought him self fortunate. There were men in hi... ...rtunate. There were men in his village who toiled a whole year for ten dollars Mexican, and there were women who made nets all the year round for five ... ...heir hands in applause of the long shot by the man with the ginger beard. The Mexican 22 N OBODY knew his history — they of the Junta least of all. H... ...rd, he came to it — a tremendous pit, obviously artificial, in the heart of the plateau. Old history, the South Seas Sailing Directions, scores of reme...

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...ghboring towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.” The Mexicans also practised a similar purification at the end of every fifty tw... ...in the least. There was pasture enough for my imagination. The low shrub oak plateau to which the opposite shore arose, stretched away toward the prai... ...e woods, and the trumpet that sings of fame, and I felt as if I could spit a Mexican with a good relish, — for why should we always stand for trifles? ...

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...ty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inlan... ...nts of the prairies, Chants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minne... ...lains, the grass fields of the world! land of those sweet air’d interminable plateaus! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 33 Land of the herd, the garden, the... ...ced sisters and the inexperienced sisters! Far breath’d land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! The compact! The Pennsylvanian! the Virgini... ... breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile, I hear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer, and the bells of the mule, I hear the Arab muezzin call... ...ado men are we, From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus, From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we com... ...rairies over and slept on their breast, I cross’d the Nevadas, I cross’d the plateaus, I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail’d out t... ...e moving animals teaching content, Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars, Give me ...

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...ing towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.” The Mexicans also practised a similar purification at the end of every fifty tw... ... the least. There was pasture enough for my imagination. The low shrub oak plateau to which the opposite shore arose stretched away toward the prairie...

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...pected, but only isolated hills and mountains rising here and there from the plateau. The country is an archipelago of lakes, — the lake country of Ne... ...the first generation of them deserve a pension more than any that went to the Mexican war. Early the next morning we started on our return up the Penob...

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...he Polit. Essay on Kingdom of N. Spain will show how immense a barrier the Mexican table- land forms. Dr. Richardson, in his admirable Report on the Z... ... before the Brit. Assoc. 1836 (p. 157), talking of the identification of a Mexican animal with the Synetheres prehensilis, says, “We do not know with ... ...in late periods, will not fear to speculate on the recent elevation of the Mexican plat- form, or, more probably, on the recent submergence of land in... ... am informed that this same character is common to the cities on the great Mexican platform. Of the town I have nothing to say in detail: it is not so... ...emely magnificent. In the evening we reached the Blackheath. The sandstone plateau has here attained the height of 3400 feet; and is covered, as befor...