Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit India; you visit yourself," a New York investment analyst tells an Italian woman from Houston and her 18-year-old son. "Whether man finds things on Mars is a reflection of whether he can find them in his subconscious," opines a crystals dealer from Santa Cruz, Calif. At another table, former All-Star Pitcher Vida Blue is buried in a book; at still another, a Balinese dancer chats with the former lead flutist of the London Symphony Orchestra...
...curb Nicaragua's chronic problems of mismanagement and inefficiency. Inflation threatens to reach quadruple digits, and such basics as eggs, onions and beef remain prohibitively expensive. Pet projects once showcased by the Sandinistas have withered, including programs to unclog sewers, remove garbage and fix up schools. Says Arturo Cruz, a former contra leader who now lives in Miami: "The Sandinistas were very good guerrillas, but they are disasters as economic managers...
...criticize the Army Corps for relying on anti-erosion schemes -- seawalls, jetties and groin fields -- that often cause more problems than they solve. "The Army Corps of Engineers has had a long, checkered history," says Gary Griggs, a professor of coastal geology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Still, he admits, the Army Engineers "have done better recently." Says Charles Rooney, the corps's chief of civil projects in New York: "The state of the art in coastal engineering has improved. We understand more than we used to. We build smaller to allow the bypassing of sand...
...then decline. But 1987A's brightness rose, then leveled off, then increased again, peaking around May 22, when it was easily visible to the naked eye. Since then it has been gradually dimming. One possible explanation was proposed by Astronomer Stan Woosley of the University of California at Santa Cruz. He suggests that the decay of radioactive elements within 1987A's cloud of debris is now generating the light. If he is right, gamma-ray emissions from decaying cobalt 56 should start showing up this summer. Concedes Woosley: "I'm out on a limb." A more radical theory, put forth...
...singles: Peter Palandjian, H, def. Cruz, C, 6-1, 6-4; 2nd singles: Engle, H, def. Jervis, C, 6-3, 6-3; 3rd singles: Paul Palandjian, H, def. Pellts, C, 6-1, 6-0; 4th singles: Laddin, H, def. Meel, C, 6-0, 6-1; 5th singles: Stinebaugh, H, def. Kremer, C, 6-2, 6-1; 6th singles: Berry, H, def. Weiss, C, 6-2, 7-6; 1st doubles: Peter Palandjian and Paul Palandjian, H, def. Cruz and Fassullo, C, 6-3, 6-3; 2nd doubles: Engle and Laddin, H, def. Jervis and Kremer...