Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Emilia Davis, 38, of Boston's working-class Roslindale section, is the beneficiary of another of the state's far-reaching programs. After years of dependence on welfare to support herself and her five children, Davis, who is separated from her husband, is now going to college with the ultimate hope of finding a job. The state's E.T. (employment and training) program provides her with vouchers for day care in the public housing complex where she lives. "Child care is an absolute precondition if one is serious about trying to help people lift themselves out of poverty," insists Governor...
...daughter Emilia once said to me, "My father lives in the skies. For 25 years he has not set foot on the streets of Moscow. All he sees is the view from his car window...
...summer home of the Italian Prime Minister? A rambling country estate in Emilia-Romagna? No. Villa Banfi is the name of the largest U.S. importer of Italian wines (1982 revenues: about $250 million). Once the 65-year-old Long Island company was simply a modest seller of specialty wines like Marsala. But that all changed in 1967, when the Mariani brothers, John Jr., 51, and Harry, 45, traveled to Italy and sampled Riunite Lambrusco, a light red wine of the Emilia-Romagna region. The brothers struck a deal with the local growers' association and initially shipped 100 cases...
...rest of the squad continued to the rear of the five-room apartment, where they found the three remaining terrorists: Frascella, Savasta's girlfriend Emilia Libera, 26, and Cesare di Lenardo, 22. The three put their hands up immediately. Not a shot had been fired. From the moment the leatherheads first entered the building, barely 90 seconds had elapsed...
...visited 105 countries as a Vatican envoy and was a strong candidate for the papacy after the deaths in 1978 of Pope Paul VI and his short-lived successor, John Paul I; of a blood clot of the lungs; during a visit to his home town of Reggio Emilia. Pignedoli served as a navy chaplain in World War II; he was elevated to Cardinal in 1973. As head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, he "blotted his copybook" during an attempt at Christian-Islamic dialogue in 1976 by endorsing a document that, through his oversight, contained attacks on Israel...