Word: jose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jose Garcia, professor of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico, economist Pablo Rivera, and Ramon Arbona, secretary-general of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (U.S. Zone) will be the featured speakers. "Denuncia un Embeleco," a videotaped collection of interviews with fishermen whose jobs would be affected by the superport will be shown...
...others were forced to queue up in lines four or five blocks long. National Guard troops were called out to pump gas at a station in Gleneden Beach, Ore., where Western Governors were holding a conference, so that the visiting politicians could get out for a ride. In San Jose, Calif., a dealer who decided to close before filling the tanks of all waiting motorists had to be rescued from irate customers by the state highway patrol...
...Jose, Calif., a booming city, actually lives off its own growth. The largest employer is the home-building industry, kept busy by the doubling of the city's population (to 500,000) since 1960. Trouble is, San Jose has been growing so fast that it cannot keep up with the demand for new roads, sewer systems and, above all, schools. Seven of the 26 school districts operate on double sessions. Fed up, citizens last April approved a referendum requiring developers to get special permission from school districts before applying for residential zoning changes. Remarkably, the voters, including those...
...gained its independence from Spain in 1818, the country has been periodically racked by economic strife and class warfare, with the military entering the fray on one side or the other. In 1891, civil war broke out when part of the armed forces sided with a progressive President, Jose Manuel Balmaceda (who committed suicide when he lost), and part with a Congress determined to block his reforms. Allende frequently drew parallels between Balmaceda's plight...
Brown scored on a ten-yard run by sophomore Hubie Morgan (an impressive prospect) and a field goal by Jose Violante...