Word: maria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plant vines in the Gavilan Mountains at 2,200 ft. above sea level, making his future vineyard among the highest, and the coldest, in California. Around that same time, another young winemaker, Ken Brown, was turning down job offers in Napa to head even farther south, to the Santa Maria Valley near Santa Barbara. "People thought I was crazy," he recalls, "but I knew the potential here was incredible...
...that it saved about $240,000 a year in health-care expenses for breast-feeding mothers and their children and a further $60,000 through reduced absenteeism. That's not including the incalculable goodwill of happy new parents. "They couldn't have made it any easier," says project manager Maria Couchon about pumping milk at work for her four-month-old daughter Ava. "It's a fact of life that I had to come back to work. But being able to do this was a big load off my mind...
...Among them were those who, despite a concerted civic-education effort by the United Nations and aid agencies, don't yet fully understand the new order their vote will help create. At a polling center in Liquica, where a militia attack in April 1999 left hundreds dead or injured, Maria Isobel de Jesus says her family "wants only peace," but she doesn't know what a constitution is. Yet even the confusion did not stop the Timorese embracing the day?with enormous enthusiasm: early figures suggested more than 90% of the 421,000-strong electorate voted. A few polling centers...
...reform plan and other domestic initiatives haven't got far. But no Mexican President--ever--has gone over in the U.S. the way Fox has. "I was watching the political elite going nutso for this guy. It was like Madonna had come to town," says Ana Maria Salazar, a former Clinton Administration official now teaching in Mexico, describing Fox's appearance one year ago at an Inter-American Development Bank event in Washington. And no Mexican President has ever had the chemistry with a U.S. President that Fox has with George W. Bush. The first foreign leader to play host...
...impact broke the Ferrari's chassis and Schumacher's right leg. An enforced three-month layoff followed. (He was ordered back into the car for the last two races of the season after Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo phoned Schumacher's home and was told by his daughter Gina Maria that Daddy couldn't come to the phone because he was playing football in the back yard.) In any case, the layoff gave him time to think. He later told a motor-sport magazine: "I think my accident gave the team lessons in that if you want to fight...