Word: ana
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...Beach insurance man who is a fourth- generation resident of the county, still remembers how his grandfather lost his orchard to a freeway in 1960 and how, even in the late 1960s, fields of sugar beets and lima beans and perfumed orange groves stretched along Route 55 from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa. That arcadian vision lasted until nearly 1970. Then, in just 20 years, Orange County grew by nearly 1 million people as 90,000 acres were transformed into commercial "edge cities," freeways and houses. Industry then rushed in and created hundreds of thousands of new jobs...
...Willow Creek Community Church northwest of Chicago, for example, that a traffic controller atop the building is needed to supervise the uniformed attendants who direct cars across the acres of asphalt. Befuddled visitors are greeted with information booths in the lobby. At Calvary Chapel in Santa Ana, Calif., converts are so numerous that they are baptized in the Pacific Ocean, dozens at a time...
...addition, Healy listed Raymond Johnson, chief of police in Inglewood, Calif., and Clyde Cronkite, former police chief in Santa. Ana, Calif., and former deputy police chief in Los Angeles. Cronkite, the only white candidate, is now a professor at the University of Southern California...
...will remain what it was under Manuel Noriega: a prime money-laundering center for drug cartels. And President Endara's problems extend well beyond the disapproval of his American benefactors. Some of his own colleagues complain about the influence exerted on Endara, 54, by his bride of five months, Ana Mae Diaz Chen, 23. Aides say the President's wife walks into Cabinet meetings uninvited to deliver messages to her husband, then hangs around to offer opinions, unfailingly seconded by Endara. "He lives in a cage," says one Panamanian official, "a very shapely 23-year-old cage...
Although the project claimed a number of successes, the political climate made it nearly impossible for judges and prosecutors to operate effectively, said Ana Maria Salazar, who directed the Guatemala office of the program from January to its close in September...