Word: marteli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also the standard ingredients of the oil business, Mexican-style. The sordid revelations are the latest, and most titillating, evidence of the widespread corruption that flourished under President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's predecessor, José López Portillo. Last week Senator Ramón Martínez Martín, a former leader of the teachers' union, called for a complete investigation of the allegations of wrongdoing. If proved, he said, the charges against one of Mexico's largest unions "would be considered crimes against the economy and against the oil workers...
Despite polls that show Mart trailing in the race, Sorensen said he is optimistic about Hart's chances for the Democratic nomination: "Not one delegate has been chosen yet," he said...
...seemingly indelible charisma, the party has had a near mystical sway over a vast poor and working-class constituency. Today, however, the Peronists are torn by factional feuding, an affliction that many members believe could be cured if only Isabel (born Maria Estela) Martínez de Perón, the dictator's widow, would assert herself. Isabelita, as she is widely called, was ousted by the military in 1976 and banned from politics after a disastrous 21-month reign as Argentine President. She fled to self-exile in Spain, but last week the government restored her political rights...
...host of new American fashion centers. Other big cities, many in the Sunbelt, have set up markets that are siphoning off a growing share of sales. So while New York was still coping with the aftereffects of the blackout last week, Atlanta was celebrating. The Atlanta Apparel Mart is the first stop after New York on the August fashion tour for many women's wear manufacturers, and customers were placing orders in Atlanta that they could not make in New York. Said Bob Edelstein, regional sales director for Crazy Horse, a sportswear maker: "Many buyers I would normally...
...putting on new muscle almost daily. A sampling from last week's news reports: factory orders in June rose 3.9%, the largest one-month increase in three years; retail-store chains in July posted heartening sales increases over a year earlier (9.8% for Sears, 11.8% for K Mart); the Big Three automakers boosted sales in the last ten days of July by 37.1% over the depressed figures...