Word: grandee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"There's more to it than just a cup of coffee," gushes Laura Moix, Starbucks media relations manager. She cites the hours of classroom training and "bar training" for all Starbucks employees in the preparation of everything from a double tall half-caff skinny latte to a grande americano with...
Fortunately, such anger and fear are rare on either side of the Rio Grande. Not only is Perot's warning about American jobs vanishing south with a "giant sucking sound" not coming true, but thousands of tractor-trailer rigs are rumbling through the border crossings -- carrying beer, heavy machinery, clothing...
Those who did brave the sea seem to have come away from the ordeal with a better understanding of the price of freedom. "I don't want to wake up from my dream," exclaimed Aylen Alvarez, 8, a pretty girl from Puente Grande Havana who arrived on Wednesday with her...
By the most objective measure, test scores, year-round education seems to be working. Before switching to its new schedule, Socorro schools had some of the lowest test scores in the county. Now Socorro students outscore the state average on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. One Socorro school, Campestre...
The city's noviye bogati, or nouveaux riches, are a small but growing elite numbering some 300,000 (a class of notables whom 13% of the country, according to a survey conducted by Moscow News, would like to see thrown in prison). These are the post-Soviet sybarites who patronize...