Word: maria
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...Mondragon story began in 1941, when a Catholic priest, Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta (often shortened to Arizmendi), found in the Basque town war-torn devastation where there had been a thriving manufacturing base. He opened a polytechnic school, which in 1956 spawned its first cooperative, a stove factory. Half a century later, the Mondragon enterprise encompasses firms making everything from machine tools to electronics to bicycles, along with a retail division, a university and a significant financial sector, with the large cooperative bank Caja Laboral at its core...
...Craig's exit, we need an analysis of who "won" in this reversal of campaign promises [Nov. 30]. Why did Craig and his team, who were carrying out Obama's original promises, lose? What does this portend for the shape of the Obama Administration long-term? William Gloege Santa Maria, Calif...
...page Angostura report provides further evidence that Gustavo Larrea, who has held positions as Interior and Security Minister under Correa, had direct links to the FARC, along with José Ignacio Chauvín, briefly his deputy in the Interior Ministry, and Maria Augusta Calle, a television journalist and currently a legislator for Correa's Alianza PAIS political movement. All deny supporting the guerrillas. At the same time, however, the report is certain to come under scrutiny for the way it insulates Correa from blame. (It also finds no wrongdoing by any of his current officials.) "If we have pedophile...
School of Public Health professor M. Maria Glymour and her team analyzed stroke deaths from 1980, 1990 and 2000 using census data and mortality records across the United States and concluded that geography, not genetics, is likely the driving factor for higher stroke mortality...
...Several sources say Reid made the change in part at the pleading of former Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly, who runs the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare, a powerful senior-citizens advocacy group. "We don't think there ought to be a commission at all - period," says Maria Freese, the organization's director of government relations. "This is not supposed to be a bill that shrinks Medicare." Administration officials are working to get the teeth restored to the commission idea - "We've got to have it," says an official - but that will be a huge challenge. The White House will...