Word: montalvo
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Captain Rico Robinson, 32, the Houston battalion's personnel officer, was the first suicide, shooting himself in January 2005. But one of his predecessors, Christina Montalvo, had tried to kill herself a few years earlier, gulping a handful of prescription sleeping pills in a suicide attempt that was thwarted when a co-worker found her. Montalvo says a boss bullied her about her weight. And she was shocked by the abuse that senior sergeants routinely levied on subordinates. "I'd never been in a unit before where soldiers publicly humiliated other soldiers," says Montalvo, who left the Army...
...Party predecessor, José María Aznar - up to one-quarter of GDP growth over the past seven years has been linked to housing starts. The resulting housing glut stemmed above all from overconfidence about tourism and speculation on second-home purchases. But José García-Montalvo, an economics professor at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University, says basic misconceptions about the rapidly changing Spanish family have exacerbated the problem. Gung-ho developers forged ahead with building projects, in part because government estimates of housing demand made faulty assumptions. A divorced couple, for instance, was automatically calculated...
Still, economist García-Montalvo remains optimistic. "There will be problems in the short and medium term, but the economy is more dynamic, with more education, more entrepreneurship, more will to work," he says. "These are good signs for long-term growth...
...very, very selective prosecution. If the Justice Department is going to indict and prosecute every person who lies, it had better start recruiting lawyers. The real damage comes now. How many people will lose their jobs in Stewart's company because of this great legal "success"? Juan F. Montalvo Wellington...
...Jackeline Montalvo can be reached at montalvo@fas.harvard.edu...