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Tachito is one of the richest men in Central America. He has extensive holdings in, among other things, cotton, coffee, shipping, fishing, Nicaragua's Lanica airlines and neighboring Costa Rica, where he is the largest foreign landowner. He is a regular contributor to American political campaigns; this year his cattle ranches will export 25 million lbs. of meat to the U.S. Before the quake hit, Tachito was hoping to spend the next two years or so on his country's political sidelines. Because Nicaragua's constitution bars him from immediately succeeding himself to a second five-year...
...nonfiction, newspapers and scientific journals from all over the English-speaking world in search of references to their assigned words. Some of the readers worked for nothing, while most freelanced for about $1 an hour. The oldest was a cleric in his 90s who is also listed as a contributor to the first O.E.D. The most prolific was a British book reviewer, Marghanita Laski, who supplied more than 100,000 usage illustrations...
...view of the fact that males are virtually controlled and dominated by women from birth to puberty and often beyond that? Why haven't you done a better job, if you are as smart as you say you are?" To Clark MacGregor, expounding on the embarrassment a major contributor to the Nixon campaign would suffer if his role were disclosed: "What is he ashamed...
...other contributors are Arnold M. Soloway--former professor at Harvard Boston College, and Brown--and Edwin Weiss, professor of mathematics at Boston University. Soloway is the major contributor to the study...
Just as labor unions chip in money to help one another when they are on strike, most of the major and local U.S. airlines have a mutual aid pact to assist any contributor who is grounded by labor trouble. No company has benefited more from the pact than Northwest Orient Airlines, which has been shut down by strikes about one day in every ten since 1960. Last week Northwest settled still another strike, and though it did not do nearly as well as normally during the shutdown, it received so much in strike benefits that it actually showed a profit...