Word: iolanda
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...scaling back even the limited opportunities casual positions offer. Not only are there fewer jobs available - Spain lost 620,000 positions in 2008; 124,000 joined the ranks of the unemployed in March alone - but those that remain are earning even less. "People here wish they were mileuristas," says Iolanda Velasco, a Vigo city councilwoman. "They're 800-euroists." Velasco, who oversees the city's youth programs notes another change. "The cutoff age for our workshops and training sessions was 30. But because the age [people leave home] keeps rising, we just changed...
...emceed a tribute ceremony to him. That night he gave me a set of gold cuff links that he had designed and made especially for me. I was very touched. Tony was a funny man and, most of all, a family man. The morning of his marriage to Iolanda (with whom he already had two children), the wedding ring was lost. In a desperate search, he exclaimed to his kids, "Come on, help me find the ring. Don't you want me to marry your mother?" I always think of Tony dancing in Zorba--so strong, so happy, so full...