Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home have increased 50% among Senators over the past five years and 200% among Congressmen. One example: Minnesota Senate Republican David Durenberger and his two sons, 21 and 23, were able to wrap a free and entirely legal six-day Caribbean vacation around the Senator's informal meeting with Puerto Rican health officials and a speech he delivered to Squibb Corp. executives...
...level in the United States is lower because of a considerable number of blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans," Nakasone was quoted by two Japanese dailies as telling a group of fellow Liberal Democratic Party politicians. A party official later said the premier was referring to the literacy rate...
...vegetables, and a furor erupted. Despite the FDA's consent, the process until now has been used mainly to preserve herbs and spices. But last week gamma ray-treated fruit made its first U.S. appearance when Laurenzo's Farmer's Market in North Miami Beach began offering irradiated Puerto Rican mangoes. The FDA is now considering whether to extend approval to fish and poultry. Nineteen other countries have also endorsed irradiation for a wide array of foodstuffs...
Meanwhile, U.S. military planners began going through the motions of considering other possible training sites. Fort Benning, Ga., was mentioned. So was, to the horror of some officials at State, politically volatile Puerto Rico. But most experts suspected that in the end, as part of a "covert" anti-Sandinista campaign that has been wide open all along, Honduras would agree to maintain the "covert" contra training camps while officially denying their existence. One Honduran official seemed resigned to as much when he likened dealing with the U.S. to "being in bed with an elephant: whatever movement there is, no matter...
...court ruled two weeks ago, in a case involving advertising by gambling casinos in Puerto Rico, that even truthful ads for lawful goods and services could be restricted by the state to protect the "health, safety and welfare" of its citizens...