Word: ferre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Anglo" who lived in Miami during some of the area's fastest changing years (1975-80), I take issue with Mayor Ferré's statement that the "Anglos can't adapt." How could the situation be otherwise? English-speaking Americans have no job future there if they don't speak a foreign language. After five years of feeling like a foreigner in my own country, I moved back to New York-a refugee from South Florida...
...explains to a weighty fellow whom he takes to be a psychiatrist but who is in fact an insurance agent. He is troubled by an odd sort of sexual dislocation: when he is making love to his wife (a porky and bubbleheaded blonde played delightfully by Andréa Ferréol), he also seems to be sitting in a chair and watching the heavings. Worse, as the illness progresses, the chair he watches, from recedes farther and farther from the action...
...Cubans have their own complaints. They point out that only two Hispanics hold elective offices in Miami: Mayor Maurice Ferré, a Puerto Rican, and City Commissioner Manolo Reboso, a Cuban. Cubans have no representatives in the Florida legislature or in the U.S. Congress. Latins hold only 20% of the city government jobs in Miami and only 4.9% of the top bureaucratic posts. Much of the blame for that rests with the Cubans: only 47% of them are American citizens. Many still see themselves, apparently, as anti-Communist absentees from their island home...
...heavily Hispanic Miami, Incumbent Maurice Ferré, 42, a Puerto Rico-born millionaire, easily turned back a challenge from E.L. Marina, a Cuban exile who runs a private school. In Houston, former District Attorney Frank Briscoe, a cousin of Governor Dolph Briscoe, led a field of twelve candidates in a muted, gloves-on primary. The gloves are expected to come off when Briscoe faces former City Councilman Jim McConn, a Houston developer, in a runoff next week. In Washington State, two former newsmen are about to take some of their own medicine. TV Analyst Charles Royer was elected mayor...
...higher than that of any Spanish-speaking nation in the Americas, but chronically high rates of inflation and unemployment (now at 12%) still plague the island-a fact Hernández pointed out over and over during his campaign. If he cannot improve upon Ferré's fiscal record, he may well find himself out of office four years from...