Word: puerto
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BORN: Dec. 24, 1956, Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico EDUCATION: U.S. Military Academy, West Point, B.S., 1978 FAMILY: Wife, Patricia; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army, 1978-84; Army Reserve, 1984-91 OCCUPATION: Real estate investor POLITICAL CAREER: South Barrington Board of Trustees, 1989-93; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 57, La Grange...
...young girl in a rural Puerto Rican sugar-cane town, Velazquez wondered what lay beyond the mountains. In 1992 she became the first Puerto Rican woman in the House and has maintained a strong commitment to her Latino roots. She was arrested in 1994 while protesting President Clinton's repatriation of Haitian refugees, and has fought for a national strategy to combat financial crimes...
...flipping through somebody else's photo album: Who are all those people just hanging around in front of the camera? After half a dozen uneventful shots of another of Goldin's lovers you sense what's missing when you come across her 1982 picture called Brian in the Cabana, Puerto Juarez, Mexico. He's reclining on one arm in a shadowy hut, looking at some sunstruck foliage through the slats of an open, louvered glass window. In most of her pictures Goldin's friends don't get out much in daylight. With a pensive expression, Brian regards the natural world...
...first it was called a Latino march, but later it was termed as a march for immigrant rights," Estela Diaz '97 said. "Dominicans from New York, Puerto Ricans from D.C., Mexicans from California...got together for one issue, which was immigration...
Then came August, when Enrico learned that Pepsi's biggest bottler, Argentina's B.A.E.S.A., was rotten with financial problems--this coming on the heels of accounting shenanigans with Pepsi Bottling of Puerto Rico. And last week Pepsi's sad summer seemed to reach its nadir in Venezuela, the company's showcase South American market: overnight and without notice, Pepsi's independent (to say the least) bottler switched 18 plants and 2,500 trucks to archrival Coca-Cola, a midnight move that will cost Pepsi some $400 million in sales and $10 million in profits according to analysts if the defection...