Word: alvarez
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year inflation and high foreign debt ($13 billion). A devaluation was also sought by tourist operators, whose business declined 4% in 1975, owing largely to price increases that had made once cheap Mexico City as costly for Americans as many European cities. Said President Luis Echeverría Alvarez: "In the end, there will be more jobs, more production, more exports and more tourism...
...political intention or of opinion." Chief among these are scores of imprisoned Spanish Communists, whose party is still illegal despite a recent thaw in relations between the government and the democratic opposition. Among the first to be released were Simón Sánchez Montero and Santiago Alvarez, two leading officials in the party hierarchy who were jailed earlier this year...
...prepare to go to the polls July 4 to elect their next President. Unlike the U.S. electorate, however, Mexicans already know who will win. He is José López Portillo, 56, who was Finance Minister in the present government and the personal choice of President Luis Echeverria Alvarez to succeed him. Because Mexican law limits a President to one six-year term, the incumbent customarily chooses the next standard bearer of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), which has dominated Mexican politics since 1929. Moreover, the failure of the tiny Partido de Accion Nacional (P.A.N.) to agree...
...Most Rev. Helder Câmara, LL.D., Archbishop of Recife, Brazil. Luis W. Alvarez, S.D. Always alert for innovative applications of nuclear physics, he used neutrinos from outer space to search for undiscovered tombs in the Egyptian pyramids...
...like any other students here, foreign students get involved in extracurricular activities, they talk about writing papers and worry about problem sets. Ishikawa is active on the Crimson Key; Alvarez is Radcliffe first class marshall; Nimgade participated in last month's demonstration for affirmative action. Many of them cook meals for friends and teach others about their countries. Life is not all that much more difficult for them than it is for most...