Word: franciscos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some people amuse themselves with books and magazines, in-flight movies or a few hours of shut-eye, while making the transcontinental trip from San Francisco to Boston. Crammed into my coach-class seat I'm entertaining myself as only a true data geek can - by perusing a massive spreadsheet containing Internet users' unique searches for each of the front-running presidential candidates. United Airlines, you may keep your complimentary headset, thank you. I have no interest in watching John Travolta in drag in Hairspray (who picks these movies?) when someone in the Hitwise sample has searched for "Rudy Giuliani...
...systems. The swampy state of Tabasco, where Villahermosa is situated, also suffered floods in 1999, prompting the federal government to award millions of dollars to strengthen the dam and pump system. That money has not been all accounted for. "Right now we have a crisis to resolve," Interior Secretary Francisco Ramirez Acuna responded to TIME when asked about that project. "Afterwards, we can analyze what was done right and what was done wrong...
...bludgeoned to death in the parish house of his Guatemala City church the day after he published an exhaustive report of human rights violations by the Guatemalan army during the civil war. Although three military officers were convicted of the murder and jailed in 2001, Guatemalan-American writer Francisco Goldman claims a key witness identified Molina as one of several high-ranking army men who gathered near the church on the night of the murder. But Molina dismisses the claim as "pure lies," saying he was not even in the country when Gerardi was killed...
...involuntary circumcision of newborn males is cosmetic surgery and a civil rights violation. When Prince realized his sensitivity loss was a result of being cut, he says, "I could feel so much anger building up in me because I didn't have a choice." Griffiths, who co-founded San Francisco-based NORM, or National Organization of Restoring Men, says, "I felt that I had been mutilated and denied the pleasures of a foreskin. I never felt comfortable in clothes because my glans was always being abraded." NORM now has outposts in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. But its message...
This summer an unprecedented coalition, running the gamut of the advocacy world from rural development to health to business to the environment, emerged to help Kind and Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona try to shake up the system. Editorials thundered for reform, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco--the city of organic kale and "meat is murder"--vowed to deliver it. The moment seemed ripe for Democrats to challenge the status quo. Agribusiness was steering two-thirds of its campaign donations to Republicans, and just 19 of the 435 congressional districts were vacuuming up half of all subsidies...