Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Meanwhile, a team that's already well down the road the Marlins are on found themselves in the bizarre, but increasingly common, position of celebrating a Cy Young winner at the same time as entertaining trade offers for him. Pedro Martinez was named the National League's top pitcher after dominating the league last season with a 17-8 record and 1.90 ERA. The award can only help the Expos, now little more than a Major League farm team for clubs with deeper pockets, deal Martinez to a team such as the Yankees that can afford to pay Cy Young...
...Pedro A. Pimentel '99, a student from the Dominican Republic, praised the genial atmosphere of the gathering...
...least one former fraternity pledge, sophomore Pedro Fuentes, said the fraternity has a campus reputation for wild parties...
Cerpa had let hundreds of the original hostages walk out the door, but he kept a tight grip on the 72 he valued most: senior Peruvian officials, Fujimori's brother Pedro, foreign diplomats and the Japanese ambassador. The Peruvian President assumed that he would eventually have to fight to get them back. "The talks with the guerrillas weren't going to go anywhere," says a high-ranking Peruvian military official. "As soon as the tunnel and the commandos were ready, so was he." Britain, Germany and Israel offered to help, as did the U.S., but all were turned down. "There...
...country as avowedly macho as Brazil, can a soft-spoken female executive pull such an unwieldy behemoth together? If anyone can, it is probably Marques. Brazil's Finance Minister, Pedro Malan, calls her a "force of nature." A legendary workaholic, she stayed at her CSN desk right up to the day before her first children--twins--were born last October. "The doctor told me if I didn't stop working, I'd have had to leave [the office] in an ambulance," she recalls. Feeling that the standard four-month maternity leave was excessive, Marques was back at her desk exactly...