Word: adolfo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they just leave the President alone?" That's the question Sherman Oaks fourth-grader Cassini Quinones asks. "She says he seems to be a nice man, and the world is running O.K., and isn't he doing his job?" says her father Adolfo. "This comes from a nine-year-old! Children are very smart. She wanted to know what allegations are. I explained that it's like when your brother says something about you is true, but we don't have proof...
...fixes electrical wires in Fidel Castro's Cuba, while living with the "remnants of a bird's nest" in the chandelier of her decaying house; Constancia Aguero Cruz basks in affluent loneliness in Key Biscayne, Fla., where Cuban songs play "slow as regret, on the afternoon radio." Constancia wears Adolfo suits as she drives her pink Cadillac to the factory she owns; Reina sashays braless among the mahogany trees. Yet though they live on opposite sides of the revolution, both Aguero sisters share something deep as blood: a matter-of-fact commitment to the magic of their island of honey...
...with corruption, embezzlement, nepotism and influence peddling in a case involving the alleged mishandling of $88 million in a government security fund. Welfare Minister Gustavo Baquero claims an audit of his ministry's books shows $83 milli on unaccounted for by his predecessor, Bucaram's brother Adolfo. And the Comptroller's office is investigating a $40-million program designed to make good on a Bucaram campaign pledge to give every school-age child a free backpack. Of 400,000 ba ckpacks ordered from Colombia, only 3,000 arrived. The money, of course, is gone. Bucaram continues to maintain...
...explaining away charges of impropriety lodged by a member of his political opposition. The charge is small potatoes in the world of Mexican politics, but nonetheless made the front page of Friday's New York Times and amounts to the first smudge on Zedillo's squeaky-clean reputation. Congressman Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, an independent who was formerly a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, says Zedillo permitted a questionable $7 million payment to corn-flour giant Maseca, a company controlled by political supporters. Zedillo, then the senior budget official under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, allegedly indicated...
...They were unconscious. we stripped them, and when the flight commander gave the order, we opened the door and threw them out, naked, one by one. That is the story, and nobody can deny it." With these words, former Argentine navy Captain Adolfo Francisco Scilingo, 48, spilled one of the dirtiest secrets of the "dirty war" that raged in his country from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Human-rights workers and relatives of at least 9,000 Argentines who "disappeared" under military rule have long contended that the missing were systematically murdered by troops acting on orders from...