Word: hern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most successful refugees have had a network of relatives and friends to help cushion the shock of resettlement. Several weeks after stepping off a crowded fishing boat in Key West, Teresita Hernández, 24, came to Chicago under the sponsorship of her uncle. "At the beginning it was hard for me," she admits. But with the money she earns as a part-time clerk, Hernández has been able to rent a small studio apartment, buy a serviceable used car and enroll in classes at Northeastern Illinois University. Her goal: to become a pharmacist...
Mexico's new Secretary for Commerce, Héctor Hernández, summed up his nation's expectations in a speech to foreign bankers and investors only two days after De la Madrid's inauguration. "There are no magic formulas to solve the problems," he said. "The miracle must be made by Mexicans themselves." If the U.S. can learn anything from the tribulations of its neighbor, it is that Mexico has become a mature enough force in the world to decide how to face its own problems...
...square flanked by the National Congress and the presidential palace. Finally, after a long ceremony, the crowd's wait was rewarded: Bolivia's old and new Presidents appeared side by side on the balcony of the Congress. Both acknowledged the cheers, but the enthusiasm was reserved for Hernán Siles Zuazo, 69, Bolivia's second civilian leader in 18 years of almost uninterrupted, often harsh and nearly always corrupt military rule...
...most of the U.S., they would be something of a rarity these days-three generations under one roof. They share a modest, four-bedroom house in Westchester, a mostly Cuban town in the western part of Dade County: Carlos Marquez Sterling, 83, and his wife Waldina Hernández Cata, 66; Daughter Uva, 37, and her husband Jorge J. Clavijo, 45; and their two children, Uvi, 17, and Christina, 12. As has been true of other Cuban families with several generations living in South Florida, some members of the Marquez Sterling dynasty have found adjusting to the American...
...will always be able to get abortions when they want. And any ban will simply force many women who want to terminate their pregnancies to get illegal and unsafe operations, as happened before 1973. "A ban would only make abortion a humiliating and sordid experience," points out Dr. Warren Hern, director of a Boulder...