Word: bolivar
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...became an energetic opponent of Franco, living in England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar dubbed the great liberator "a vulgar imitator of Napoleon.") In Anarchy or Hierarchy (1937), Madariaga called for political equality but social hierarchy, since he believed that "inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty." His decades of exile, he once told a reporter, were not too bad since, he said. "I carry Spain...
...Harman, then chairman and chief executive of Harman International, developed a project in conjunction with officials of the United Auto Workers at Harman's auto mirror factory in Bolivar, Tenn., which attempted to increase worker participation in the plant's decision-making process...
Kissinger's 39 hours in Venezuela included a tire-squealing 60-m.p.h. climb from the sea-level airport up to Caracas, where Kissinger placed a wreath at the Simon Bolivar shrine. "Your Secretary of State is a Yankee torbellino [whirlwind]," marveled one Caracas motorcycle cop. Near the end of the visit, a local journalist asked President Pérez if Kissinger had broken the ice between the two countries. Pérez's reply: "Ice doesn't grow in tropical countries...
Herbst will become Joseph Bolivar de Lee Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and chairman of that department at Chicago, and will work at Chicago's Lying-In Hospital for Women...
...government must approve the uses to which the loans are put. To a degree, Venezuela's helping-hand programs smack of a paternalism that at another time and in other hands, was condemned as gringo imperialism. Pérez occasionally seems to envision himself a Simón Bolivar of the space age, seeking to build Venezuelan hegemony in the region. Yet the President dismisses the notion, and talks of wider goals. Says he: "We are constructing a system for unity, for Latin American integration...