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...money will enable the non-profit preservation group to "identify the central areas along the mid-to upper-Charles River that are most threatened by development," said Paula V. Cortez, former president of the association...
...most driven performer on the show, however, may be Olmos, who plays the stone-faced Lieut. Castillo. The Los Angeles-born actor won a Tony nomination in 1979 for his supporting role in the play Zoot Suit and produced and starred in the 1983 film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. He has an unusual nonexclusive contract with the series, which enables him to do other work during the season. Yet Olmos approaches his role with almost mystical dedication. "One of the things I have found most exciting about Miami Vice is that they have allowed me to play this character...
Though Pamela Cortez returned to her secretarial job shortly after giving birth to Daughter Kimberly, her thoughts stayed at home. As a result, her work suffered. Recalls Cortez: "I went through several baby-sitters trying to find a good one. I worried during the workday and found my mind drifting to my child." But now Cortez finds it much easier to concentrate on her job. Each weekday morning Kimberly, 2, rises at 6:30 and accompanies her mother as she drives to work at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass. Near by, in a former grade school leased by Wang...
...Cortez family is taking part in one of the costliest and most studied corporate benefits to emerge in the past few years: child care. Says Dana Friedman, senior research fellow at the Work & Family Information Center: "Corporate-sponsored day care is this decade's hottest new employee perquisite." An estimated 1,000 companies now provide child-care assistance to parents, double the number of two years ago. The need springs from such major social changes as the increase in single parents and the continuing movement of women into the work force. In 1970, two-thirds of U.S. women with...
...Americans can apply the lessons of the movie beyond their borders as will. "We go into Central America, and we went into Vietnam, without asking the right questions, making assumptions, and ignoring their history," Young says, "just as the sheriff went to Cortez' house with certain preconceptions." It is a message worth spreading...