Word: mercado
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...accounts, he was a likable man. Ruth Mercado, an editor at the Freeman, smiles sadly when she recalls him: "He was a jolly person, and lively," with a mischievous sense of humor that sometimes got him into trouble. "One day there was flooding in the city," Mercado says. "The chief of police was seen riding piggyback on a citizen, to cross a flooded street, and Allan got that picture. We put it on Page One. The police were so mad, but it's not every day you catch that very moment. As a photojournalist...
...Ellie Mercado...
...small-business owners, Carlos Perez Gonzalez has no interest in working Sundays. "When do we rest?" asks the 61-year-old proprietor, who has managed his shop - selling 16 varieties of olives, 14 kinds of canned tuna - for the past 29 years. Gonzalez's establishment is located in a mercado, a two-story covered market where dozens of small stands sell fresh meat, fish, cheese, flowers and produce - sort of a Spanish prototype of a shopping mall. Of course, the mercado does not have a snow dome. How did people survive without one for so long...
...endangered areas and placing them off limits to logging. They are surprisingly affordable, in part because profit margins on felled timber in remote areas can be low, which means there are few potential buyers. The Nature Conservancy bought the rights to 1.6 million acres adjoining Bolivia's Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in 1998 for $1 an acre--doubling the park's size. In 2000 Conservation International leased 200,000 acres of forest in southeastern Guyana for a $20,000 up-front fee and annual payments of 15[cents] an acre. Even where loggers cannot be bought out, the damage...
...Council on International Business (USCIB): "If there's a taking of property, a government has to pay." NAFTA's investor clauses were strengthened partly because American investors did not trust Mexico. "The idea was to protect factories from being taken over in some banana republic," says Segundo Mercado-Llorens, a labor lobbyist. "No one contemplated these provisions would be used to invalidate our environmental laws...