Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfortunate for our country that a person of such moral and mental capacity holds a position of such importance. It is equally unfortunate for race relations in these troubled times that a person revealed in this interview to be so arrogantly prejudiced against Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and blacks is a high Government official...
...Bryn Mawr College, Mayman says she has studied the piano for 13 years, and taken painting, drawing and dance lessons. After college, Mayman's various activities included: working as an associate director of admissions at Mt. Holyoke College: acting director of admissions at her alma mater: and living in Puerto Rico and England for a year a piece For two years Mayman worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, one year coordinating the BSO's 90th anniversary and another fundraising as the assistant director...
...take him out in a boat and come back alone with a tale of drowning. In July, Bird found another source, a relative of Granberg's, who revealed that three months before the accident, Granberg had visited his brother Richard, an ex-convict who lived in Puerto Rico. The relative said Granberg told his brother about the bogus death plot and borrowed his passport. Says Marr: "We believe now that they started planning this almost two years before he disappeared...
...officials are equally reticent about a new deepwater port in the northern coastal town of Puerto Castilla. The official story is that the port in Puerto Castilla was developed by a private U.S.-Honduran joint venture that, at the point of failure, miraculously found new financial backing. Whatever the case, without the facility the U.S. would not have been able to land equipment for the Seabees, let alone mount Big Pine...
Hidden traps can exist for name makers. When Chevrolet marketed its Nova in Puerto Rico, the company discovered that the car's name can be read no va, which translates as "does not go." Chevrolet also found out that many American Indians refused to buy the Apache pickup truck because that tribe had been their traditional enemy. And fundamentalist Christians condemned the Dodge Demon. A few of the pitfalls are obvious. Royalty, for example, sometimes can be a profitable quality to evoke (Monarch, Grand Marquis, Crown Victoria), but there will probably never be an automobile called the Chevy Shah...