Word: rico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Belize. Along with the vacationers has come a multitude of corporate enterprises: petrochemical plants, electronics factories, cement works. Attracted by special economic enticements and an eager labor force, industry now occupies or overlooks once pristine mangrove swamps and placid lagoons like those that dot the coast of Puerto Rico...
There has also been another glaring absence: new black faces. Reagan's sole black appointment is Appeals Court Judge Lawrence Pierce of New York, who was elevated from federal district court. Only two Hispanics have been appointed, and they serve in Puerto Rico. Four, including O'Connor, are women. (There are three more women and two Hispanics among 21 nominees now awaiting Senate confirmation...
Coming from as far as Puerto Rico, England, and Los Alamos, N.M., more than 250 high school seniors accepted under early action are being wined and dined by the Harvard community during a three-day admissions office extravaganza...
Although half of the 255 students arriving were from the New England area, prospective freshmen flew in from places as far away as California and Puerto Rico...
Like many New Yorkers tired of winter, Cristos Potamitis, 25, a former security guard for the Bronx-based Sentry Armored Car Courier Co., went to Puerto Rico late last month for a vacation. What he got instead was a surprise. While sunning himself by the pool at the Holiday Inn in San Juan last week, he was arrested by FBI agents for allegedly stealing $11 million-widely regarded as the largest cash heist in U.S. history-from his former employer. Potamitis, who was on duty at Sentry on Dec. 12, 1982, the night of the robbery, claimed he had been...