Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white-and-blue emblems of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance, known by its Spanish acronym of ARENA. Sidewalk intersections are spray-painted with the green fish symbol of ARENA'S chief rival in the eight-party presidential race, the centrist Christian Democrats led by Jose Napoleon Duarte. On El Salvador's four television channels, political advertisements exhort voters to choose the man among the many who can save the country...
...Jose, Calif...
...Korea to South Korea by U.S. troops under some maps and canvas in an Army truck. After arriving in the U.S., he paid his way through college working as a dishwasher and waiter in Lake Tahoe casinos. Hwang gained business experience by running a 7-Eleven store in San Jose, Calif., and then in 1975 used his savings of $9,000 to start making video games in his Cupertino, Calif., garage...
Androbot, a San Jose, Calif., company, planned to go public in June largely on the reputation of its chief backer, Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell, and some 4-ft-high rolling robots exhibited at trade shows. Even though the company was less than 18 months old and had lost money on each of the 400 robots it had sold, Merrill Lynch valued the initial public offering at $73 million. Eventually the company and its bankers decided to postpone the issue...
Instead of stabilizing Steinbeck's life, success confused him more than failure did. He could not decide where to live, or with whom. In 1938 he and his first wife, Carol, built a house in Los Gatos, eight miles from San Jose, complete with swimming pool, and hobnobbed with the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Spencer Tracy...