Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mallory's apartment has four rooms, but he rents out the front room to a Puerto Rican mother and two children. If that family wants to use the kitchen, or the bathroom at the far end of the kitchen, they must ask Mallory's permission. On the bathroom door Mallory has posted a sign: DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. Of the two other rooms, one belongs to Michael and Michael's mother Eileen. The other is Mallory's bedroom, nearly filled by a low queen-size bed with an upholstered maroon headboard into which a clock...
...counter it with speech that responds." Undaunted, the A.M.A. will soon begin drafting model legislation. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court could signal its current thinking on the subject of ad bans in the next few months. The high bench is expected to rule on a First Amendment challenge to a Puerto Rican law that bans local advertising by the island's legal gambling casinos...
...lowliest freshman. The most dramatic drop-offs occur at the upper levels. Minorities constitute more than 20% of the nation's college-age population, but according to Sheila Biddle, program officer of the Ford Foundation, they accounted for only 8% of the 31,190 Ph.D.s awarded in 1983. Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and American Indians together accounted for a bare 4.4%. At the M.A. level, blacks, who make up 13% of the college-age population, were awarded 6.5% of the degrees in 1979 and 5.8% in 1981. Educators say the statistics show few signs of improvement and in many...
...Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens but pay no federal income tax under commonwealth status. Federal tax laws also provide incentives for U.S. companies to locate in Puerto Rico...
...Juan Mayor Baltasar Corrada disagreed. Describing commonwealth status as a "middle of the road full of potholes," Corrada said statehood would best meet Puerto Rico's "fundamental aspirations for security and freedom...