Word: pedro
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...With reporting by Pedro Hellmann/Bern and Robert Kroon/Geneva
...more than 600 guests, largely government officials, foreign diplomats and corporate executives, were preparing to make a run at the sushi buffet and raise their pisco sours to toast Aoki's hospitality. Even Peru's President Alberto Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was expected. His mother Rosa, brother Pedro and sister Juana were already there...
...believed to have originated in a shoe store, carved a 50-foot-wide hole out of the side of the building which is located in a residential and shopping district. "There were just parts of bodies lying in the street, torsos, bones, cars blasted against the building," Police Chief Pedro Toledo said. Owners of the shoe store said they had reported a gas leak to the San Juan Gas Company several days ago. Utility company workers were continuing repairs this morning when the blast occurred. Up to 15 people are believed missing, possibly trapped under the piles of mangled debris...
According to Pedro, the 65-cent fare currently charged on the buses recovers only between 30 and 40 percent of the actual operating costs, which include the highest pay for bus drivers in the country...
Instead of saving money by raising fares--which Pedro called "a bitter pill the riders wouldn't be ready to swallow"--or cutting back on service, the MBTA decided to privatize, a move which it estimates will save $27 million annually...