Search Details

Word: chile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...with finding innovative ways to finance projects. He runs an agency called UNITAID that is attached to the World Health Organization and already channels funds to fight disease in poor countries. UNITAID was founded in 2006. Its $400 million annual budget is funded by Britain, France, Norway, Brazil and Chile. Douste-Blazy is now trying to turbo-charge those efforts by bringing in private donations. He's set up a foundation linked to UNITAID that will collect the voluntary airline-ticket levy and distribute it to key players in the field of medical assistance in Africa and elsewhere. Recipients will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Airline-Ticket Tax to Aid the Developing World | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...enjoyed only a brief, critically disastrous stay on NBC last year. In retrospect, though, creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant seem to have stumbled upon one of the hardiest premises in television history; “The Office” has been successfully transported to France, Canada, Germany, and Chile. The largely unimpressive pilot of the American “Office” had an almost identical script to that of the British premiere. Slough became Scranton, Tim became Jim, and in one memorable punchline, “Camilla Parker Bowles” became “Hillary Clinton...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Let Dwight Die with Dignity: Euthanize ‘The Office’ | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...many enigmas surrounding his life (including penchants for violence and hard drugs, neither encouraged nor disavowed by Bolaño in his lifetime), it was his participation in and imprisonment during the resistance against Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet’s military putsch in the author’s native Chile that attracted a cult-like following. That experience, perhaps more than any other single one in his life, would resonate throughout his fiction. After disbanding the infrarealists, Bolaño drifted into further obscurity in Europe, working odd jobs and writing poetry sporadically into his early 40s. This early period...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bolaño’s Quiet Terror | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

SANTIAGO, Chile — Hoping to get out of the sprinkling rain and into our warm beds (well, at least as warm as possible in a country where few homes have central heating), two friends and I hailed a cab to take us home from the restaurant where we had been celebrating a birthday...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: Holy Cow! | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Supposedly I work at the best newspaper in Chile. El Mercurio is the oldest continuously printed publication in the country, and its paper-of-record. Santiago’s two other newspapers are the aptly named El Segundo (The Second) and La Tercera (The Third...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: Working Hard, or Hardly Working? | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Next