Word: perla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Problems & Solutions. Tourism pumps $120 million a year into Puerto Rico's economy and is the fourth-ranking industry. Yet the luxury hotels on San Juan's beach front, towering not far from the fetid slum of La Perla, symbolize the island's problems. With 2,600,000 inhabitants (686 persons per sq. mi.), Puerto Rico is one of the world's most densely populated countries. Merely to keep up with the increase in population will require a giant jump in job openings-some 200,000 more in ten years-and Governor Sanchez has made employment...
While the men in the group, Sinkin, Emmons, and Luna, lived in an empty shack and worked every day in the mud to construct a water system, the women in the group, Julia Engel, Perla Kifura, and Mary Martin, lived in the village schoolhouse and taught school...
...Mushroom & the Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...