Word: argentinaã
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...list like a Harvard student and executes accordingly. My host mother’s clear preference for the fluent help translates into a clear difference in their salaries. Julia’s employment options are sharply limited (she’s fortunate, in fact, to have a job in Argentina??s tight labor market), and she earns less than 400 (US $133) pesos a month. Lourdes, on the other hand, works about twice the amount Julia does and commands a salary about three times higher...
...Argentina??s recent push for legislation benefiting the nation’s domestic workers acknowledges the stickiness of the employment situation, but in rather curious way: It aims to regulate the industry by mandating labor contracts for the 800,000 to 900,000 domestic workers in the country. (A whopping 95 percent work in the black, meaning that they ply their trade without the benefit of a labor contract, health insurance, or retirement.) By increasing benefits and salaries, providing a measure of job security and protection, the government hopes to give a boost to workers stuck...
...missed a fierce spat over adjective-noun order), the opening strains of the second stanza in sight, before we’re sidelined by a single dastardly phrase: “French window.” The professor is convinced that there is no such thing—in Argentina??and that simply to put down the literal translation of the phrase would make about as much sense as “Brazilian window” or “Czechoslovakian window” would in English. My Argentine classmates just want to know if we started saying...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina??I am told that New Yorkers by the planeloads are packing their bags and moving 5,000 miles south to Buenos Aires, to gorge themselves on $4 steaks and to trade in their 18-hour workdays for 6-hour party nights. The Good Life, they’ve recently been told (by the likes of New York Magazine and USA Today—“It has a European air and a Latin flair,” one article exclaimed, along with “Girls in bikinis!”) is available...
...laps and faced forward, listening attentively to the introduction of the wines. The group would taste six different wines that night—spanning such geographic expanses as the wine fields of Northern Italy’s Adige River Valley to the foothills of Cerro Aconcagua in Western Argentina??and all ringing up for at most $15 a bottle.BOTTLES AND BOOT CAMPIn Vino Veritas was born five years ago, the brainchild of then-HLS-student Crystal Silva, according to Heather J. Ford, co-president of the organization. The group—and interest in it?...