Word: jose
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When Do Van Tron escaped from Saigon to San Jose in 1982, no bank would take a chance on his business prospects. Do lacked a credit history, had no money and spoke no English. Today, however, the 31-year-old refugee publishes a Vietnamese-language newspaper, tools around town in a silver Jaguar and has started plans to build a shopping center. The reasons for his rapid rise: long hours of work, plenty of thrift and $4,800 in start-up capital from an unconventional source. Like thousands of other immigrants, the budding entrepreneur tapped an ethnic loan club...
...TIME interns of 1988 were chosen from 58 finalists nominated by 33 participating schools. Senior Editor Jose Ferrer helped winnow that pool down to the fortunate half a dozen. "We look at how well they think, see and write," says Ferrer. "There's no formal training program. We orient them, explain how we operate and then set them to work." Four of TIME's interns are assigned to various sections of the magazine as reporter-researchers: Borras, who attends the University of Florida, is in World; Princeton's Lee is in the Humanities cluster; Charles Poe of Baylor...
Within another 24 hours he was riding the roller coaster of emotions back down. He boarded the White House elevator to go to the lawn for a helicopter trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to visit El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte, gravely ill with cancer. On the elevator he was told that Attorney General Edwin Meese was calling. Reagan ducked into the White House physician's office and took the phone. Meese was in California. "Mr. President," he said, "I talked to you earlier about resigning. Now is the time I should...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Claudia Wallis, Robert T. Zintl...
During a picture-taking session with SalvadoranPresident Jose Napoleon Duarte, who isrecuperating from cancer surgery here, Reagan toldreporters, "I, from the first, have said we're acompassionate people, and I think that we all havecompassion for the families of those unfortunatepeople who were on that plane...