Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ponce, Puerto Rico...
...Linguistics Expert Maurice William Sullivan, 40, whose interest in language goes back to his hitch as a marine teaching German to U.S. Navy officers during World War II. Many a degree later (B.A. and M.A. in English at Yale, Ph.D. in linguistics at Madrid, B.A. in Spanish at Puerto Rico, M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury), he took up reading theory at Hollins College and Stanford and then retired to a hilltop in California's Santa Cruz Mountains to develop his books. Distributed by McGraw-Hill, they are now used by 200,000 children in some 2,000 schools...
...billion in foreign reserves and a booming economy. To help it along, Franco was persuaded to go on to an even more ambitious four-year development plan. At the heart of the plan are the seven development "poles" scattered throughout provincial Spain. Borrowing a page from Puerto Rico's successful Operation Bootstrap, Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó offers a five-year tax holiday, duty-free equipment imports, easy credit facilities and attractive plant sites to private industries willing to set up shop in these areas which are starving for capital...
Some labor-law experts would allow strikes by "nonessential" public employees, such as Government clerks, while retaining the strike ban for such essential employees as policemen, firemen and public-transit workers. Indeed, Puerto Rico permits that distinction in its commonwealth constitution. One potential effect, of course, is that strikes might eventually be banned for private "essential" employees, such as defense workers...
...being tested now on adult women in such clinics in New York City, he said, as well as in Egypt, India, and Puerto Rico...