Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Editor Jose Ferrer, who edited the toys stories, claims he was too busy to play, but he acknowledges that he would like to try a newfangled gun called Lazer Tag: "I was also intrigued by one toy, Spacewarp, which looks like a high-toned version of a marble game I used to love." When he was a boy, recalls Ferrer, toys were less exotic. He and his brother constructed raceways from blocks for marbles to slide down, and would play with them for hours, until their sister toddled in and knocked everything over...
...better part of a year, President Jose Sarney of Brazil has taken a hard line on economic policy. His current goal: to combat runaway consumer spending, which threatens to boost imports and weaken Brazil's trade balance. To rein in the boom, Sarney last month raised taxes and increased prices on consumer items. Since then, labor leaders have demonstrated against Sarney, but the President has stood firm...
Although gravely ill, Shuttleworth, 34, has lived to see his case scheduled. It will come to trial next week before U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez in Fort Lauderdale. If the court decides in Shuttleworth's favor, it will be an important victory for AIDS victims, just the second ruling from a U.S. district court that a federal law prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped protects people with AIDS. The first came only two weeks ago, when a judge in California ordered the Atascadero school district to readmit Ryan Thomas, 5, who had contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and been banned...
...capital city of Brasilia erupted in riots last week as 5,000 demonstrators battled security forces, burned police cars and looted stores in the first outbreak of antigovernment violence since civilian rule was restored 18 months ago. The rioters were protesting President Jose Sarney's decision to increase taxes and prices on such items as cars, electricity, gasoline and cigarettes. The measures, announced just six days after last month's landslide election victory by Sarney's centerleft Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, were aimed at cooling off an overheating economy...
President Jose Sarney of Brazil is a head of state by happenstance: he inherited his post in April 1985 from Tancredo de Almeida Neves, who died before taking office. Sarney, 56, last week received a mandate of his own. His center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (P.M.D.B.) won a landslide victory that gave it majority control of the 559-member congress and at least 20 of the country's 23 state governorships. The outcome ensured that the P.M.D.B. will also have a dominant voice when legislators draft a new constitution next year...