Word: javier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says. "They see they won't make in a day what they were getting in an hour up there. And the first time there's a problem, they say, 'You can take this job and shove it.' I don't need that kind of worker." Says Javier Cansino Garcia, secretary of the town council: "Some of the young people who have come back display an air of superiority. Older people, especially those who might employ them, don't like that...
Debating the world's problems is thirsty work. So when United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar eliminated the delegates' carafes of ice water to save an estimated $100,000 a year, parched orators objected...
...most intriguing poster for a Lowellcandidate belonged to Javier S. Perez '88. Itdeclared, "I am not a pimp...
Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar has countered with his own pressure: he has intimated that he may not accept a second five-year term this fall unless the U.S. continues its financial support of the U.N. "I don't see any reason why I should preside over the collapse of the organization," he told the New York Times. His pressure tactic may have been ! unnecessary: the White House is now urging Congress to vote the full assessment...
...special day varied from good cheer to quiet pride to plain antagonism. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 300 students demonstrated against the regents' refusal to grant an honorary degree to jailed South African Black Leader Nelson Mandela; later, new graduates listened politely to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's persuasions for peace on earth. At Haverford College near Philadelphia, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years ago. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...