Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between the eras of La Guardia and Koch there is a lot of relevant New York City history, including black and Puerto Rican immigration, the strengthening of the unions, the demise of the political bosses...
...father was a mulatto, his mother Puerto Rican, and she remarried into a family in which the color line got crossed so many times that it turned into a sort of soft, beige blur. That condition may be fine for discussion in a sociology seminar, but it is rough in a classroom and punishing on the playground. Jeffreys was Roman Catholic, but the other Catholic kids would not hang out with him because he was black. The neighborhood blacks kept away from him because his skin was too light. He found a couple of Jewish friends but was forbidden...
...likely to be the Dowling Committee's decision not to include special representatives of campus minority groups in the new student council. When students wrote and ratified the assembly's constitution in 1978, a clause allowing each of six groups (Asian-Americans, Black Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, and RUS) to appoint a delegate to the assembly provoked weeks of controversy but eventualy won approval. The Dowling Committee's report did not mention minority representation, Dowling says, "because we worried that if there were special seats for minority delegates, then members of the minority community would feel that...
...year executive post at staid General Motors to create his own auto company. To finance his factory, he approached rival governments like a baseball free agent dickering with club owners. The U.S. Government offered him $65 million in loan guarantees if his plant were built in Puerto Rico, but De Lorean took $114 million in loans and grants from Britain to make his cars near economically depressed Belfast in Northern Ireland...
...court, Knight likewise favors nose-to-nose confrontation. During the 1979 Pan American Games in Puerto Rico, Knight got into a fight with a policeman, then compounded his legal woes and embarrassed the U.S. team by saying: "The only thing they know how to do is grow bananas." Subsequently he attempted to justify an attack on a sportswriter by explaining: "I thought you were Spanish." In his quest to replace Woody Hayes as the raging bull of college athletics, Knight has repeatedly humiliated his team in public and once grabbed an erring player and threw him onto the bench during...