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Despite its considerable oil reserves and mineral wealth, debt, booming population growth, and grinding poverty have crippled the economy of modern Mexico.
Praising President Clinton for his federal transportation law to upgrade U.S. highways, the paper said that "without a similar effort on our part, American superhighway traffic will come grinding to a halt at the Canadian border."
In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the latter: "One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways)."
Cynics advised him to retire before the impending salary-cap war between players and team owners brings the NBA to a grinding halt.
In other words, the forces that brought this book into existence had little enough to do with Du Bois--although evoking him is of critical importance to the book's audience as a kind of typology about the struggle of black people to gain self-knowledge, a story that black people never tire of reciting, even today with a plethora of black bookshops and publishers grinding out books on black subjects or with a black point of view with ever-increasing regularity--and a great deal to do with the shift that has taken place within the black population of the United States in the last 25 years and the dramatic change in its status.