Word: dorado
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...King and scores of his classmates for whom college was financially improbable if not impossible had their horizons raised in a span of seconds last month when Murphy Oil Co., which is based in King's home town of El Dorado, Arkansas, changed the landscape of their future. "The El Dorado Promise," as the company calls it, promises each of the town's high school graduates annual grants of up to $6,000 (the amount is calibrated according to their length of residency in the city) for as many as five years of post-secondary education in institutions anywhere...
...wildest dreams I cannot imagine what the impact will be," says Larry Walter, principal of El Dorado High School. If its 320 seniors include some scions of old oil money, there are also "kids who simply could not afford to go to college, and others who were limited in their choices" because of the expense involved. For example, there is one gifted young woman whose family's resources could not accommodate her dream of Notre Dame - until now. "Another six thousand dollars a year - that makes it possible," Walter says...
...cannot be trusted. From the beginning, the White House ignored experienced military leaders and drastically miscalculated the number of troops necessary to achieve our goals. Congress should study the President's proposal hard. Without a vastly superior plan, we are sending only more American targets. Mitchell J. Fine El Dorado Hills, California...
MITCHELL J. FINE El Dorado Hills, Calif...
...punk-inspired fusion of rock and folk, their first hit album, 1995's El Dorado, proved that they were more than just a local conversation piece. In fact, at the time, the album turned them into the biggest-selling rock band to come out of Colombia. Their 1997 follow-up, the more polished La Pipa de la Paz, cemented this reputation and earned them rave reviews in the U.S. as well...