Word: jose
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...traveler promotions. Victoria's Secret stopped uniformly stocking its stores once MicroStrategy showed that the chain sold 20 times as many size-32 bras in New York City as in other cities and that in Miami ivory was 10 times as popular as black. Aspect Communications, based in San Jose, Calif., sells a program that identifies callers by purchase history. The bigger the spender, the quicker the call gets picked up. So if you think your call is being answered in the order in which it was received, think again...
During the bloody insurrection that produced the new nation of East Timor, Hasan Basri presented residents of the small town of Venelale with a proposition: give me your youngest children. I will feed them, I will educate them, and most importantly, I will protect them. At the time, Jose Pereira, a poor local farmer, awoke each morning wondering if that day the truckload of Indonesian soldiers would appear in their vengeful hunt for independence fighters and attack his family. He listened carefully to what the stranger offered. Hasan said he had government funding. He would take the children...
...began to get worried after she told me she was ‘trizzashed,’ whatever that means,” said one College administrator. “I also wondered why she left five messages on my emergency cell phone announcing that Jose Cuervo, Jack Daniels, Jim Bean and Tanqueray No. 10 would be our biggest donors. I haven’t met those particular seniors, but she seemed to know them pretty darn well.” Filney was later spotted cashing checks made out to the College Fund at Central Square’s Supreme...
Professionally, she has danced and choreographed in New York, where she taught modern dance legend Jose Limon...
...East Timorese Bishop for the Vatican and spiritual leader of his country's largely Roman Catholic population; claiming ill-health and the need for "a long period of recuperation"; in Dili, East Timor. A staunch defender of human rights, Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in 1996 for their efforts to bring peace to the region, is revered for standing up to the Indonesian military during its harsh rule of East Timor before the territory's in-dependence...