Word: gabriell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gullibility exactly but a kind of craving, a deep need for moral definition. One detects tremors of both the talent and the need in Latin America. That part of the world is breeding up unexpected, wonderful writers the way Russia did in the 19th century Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for example, has huge extravagant resources...
Officials at local biotechnological companies agree, saying that only firms with sound management and strong financial backing will survive in the fierce competition for research contracts. Saying that this competition is "not unique in the early developing stages of an industry," Gabriel Schmergl, president of the Genetics Institute in Boston, adds that it's the process of "separating the weak from the strong...
Napolitano's paper was an analysis of Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, written for a course in the Spanish-American novel. In it she cited five quotations, appropriately footnoted, from a scholarly reference work by Josefina Ludmer. But after examining the paper carefully, Napolitano's professor, Sylvia Molloy, discovered that Ludmer was quoted far more often than the footnotes indicated. Molloy charged that Napolitano deliberately changed the page numbers of quotations cited by Ludmer to correspond to those in her own edition of the Garc...
...political parties after strong prodding from the Salvadoran military and the U.S. embassy. The same agreement also led to the election of three Vice Presidents instead of one. Representing the largest parties in the assembly, they were Raúl Molina Martinez of the rightist National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.), Gabriel Mauricio Gutiérrez Castro of ARENA, and Pablo Mauricio Alvergue of the centrist Christian Democrats. The result gave at least the appearance of a political consensus. Declared U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton: "A government of national unity is good news for El Salvador. Democracy is at work...
...believe that the nation and the world are ready for a new Hula Hoop era." Venturing that brave prediction is Barry Shapiro, 39, executive vice president and general manager of the Wham-O Mfg. Co., the San Gabriel, Calif., toy and sporting-goods maker that introduced the hoop in 1958. During a slightly mad six-month period 25 years ago, as many as 120 million hoops were sold around the world. A 1967 version called the Shoop-Shoop Hula Hoop was filled with ballbearings to make a swishing sound. It briefly sparked renewed interest, but failed to reignite...