Word: colombianization
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...relief effort was bolstered by an outpouring of $50 million in aid and assistance from foreign governments and organizations. The U.S. has spent $2.5 million for such items as blankets, tents, generators and disaster relief teams. The Colombian government allocated $5 million to repair washed-out roads and bridges that had been in the path of the mudslides. An additional $2.5 million was earmarked to fix fractured oil pipelines. On Wednesday, President Betancur announced that the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank had awarded Colombia loans of $1.2 billion for reconstruction...
...lived in New York City's Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, you might have encountered a tall, dapper Colombian among the hordes of aspiring artists who congregated there. Charming, garrulous and quick to make friends, he might have invited you to his tiny apartment and offered you one of his paintings for a few hundred dollars. He might even have confided that he desperately needed the money to pay the rent. If you stumped up the cash and took the painting home, you're one lucky investor. Works by Fernando Botero from that period are worth about...
Homenaje Latino was co-sponsored by the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association, Fuerza Latina, Harvard Brazilian Organization, Harvard Organization for Latin American Students, Harvard Undergraduate Colombian Association, La Organización de Estudiantes Puertorriqueños en Harvard, Latinas Unidas, and RAZA...
...president and general counsel of the Coca-Cola Company, which he left last year after a dispute with the company’s CEO. During Patrick’s tenure, the company dealt with a lawsuit alleging that the company held responsibility for human rights violations committed in a Colombian labor dispute...
...latest selection of the world's 100 most influential people two weeks ago, you know how eclectic the list is. So you would not have been surprised at who turned out last week when we held a dinner in New York City for the TIME 100. Juanes, the Colombian rock star, opened the evening, Jon Stewart delivered an exceptionally witty monologue, and then the glorious Melissa Etheridge brought the guests to their feet with her set, culminating in the Janis Joplin classic Me and Bobby McGee. More than 50 influentials attended, and several of them--Bill Belichick, Martha Stewart...