Word: centro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Parish is bullish on energy -- literally. Ten months ago, the former California real estate lawyer opened the first commercial plant designed to produce electricity by burning cattle dung. Situated near El Centro, Calif., the Mesquite Lake Resource Recovery Project generates 17.5 MW per hr. -- enough to power 15,000 homes -- and sells most of it under a 30-year contract to Southern California Edison...
...between the paid jobs, Rodriguez has found time for volunteer work. In addition to the Jewish Family Center, Rodriguez has volunteered at the Lutheran Homeless Shelter, where she prepared and served food for the homeless, and at Centro Presente, a Central American refugee center...
Students will also work at Centro Presente, anorganization that offers legal aid to CentralAmerican refugees. Students will help refugeesfacing deportation to gain political asylum, Manisaid...
...want the students to see themselves as having a role because they are a link to the American culture and the English language," said Frank Sherry of Centro Presente, a Cambridge organization...
...only about 10% of their salary for rent -- often barely $10 a month -- they must spend twice as much just to buy an imported deck of playing cards. Block-long lines of people wait nine hours through the night and six hours more to get into the Centro department store, still commonly known by its prerevolutionary name, Sears, where government surplus items are sold at extortionate prices ($2 for a small bar of chocolate). "We have some good news and some bad news," runs the local joke. "The bad news is that everyone is going to have to eat stones...