Word: rican
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Since 1941, the Navy has practiced advanced training--integrating different elements of combat--on the small island off the Puerto Rican mainland...
Forty-two professors have joined in a Harvard junior's fight to end the U.S. Navy's presence on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...
Vieques has a 26.3 percent unemployment rate, and 73.3 percent of its population lives below the poverty line, according to a Puerto Rican government commission on Vieques...
...Navy spokesperson, Commander Karin Jeffries, said yesterday that the Navy has supported 50 economic development programs in Vieques. Jeffries said, however, that these programs have had limited success because they lacked the full cooperation of the Puerto Rican government...
...particular, the rate of cancer on the island in the 1980s was 27 percent higher than that of Puerto Rico as a whole, according to the Puerto Rican government commission...