Word: rico
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supermarket is the creation of Harry Jubelirer, 65. He and his father, a shoe-store owner, went into business together in Homestead, Pa., after World War II. The younger Jubelirer was so laced up in the shoe business that he and his wife Natalie spent their honeymoon in Puerto Rico visiting shoe stores. In January 1954, the father and son bought Reyers, which had operated profitably in Sharon since 1885. Jubelirer bought more fashionable shoes and later quadrupled floor space, a risky move because Sharon's downtown was already on the verge of decline. "I was scared to death...
Elements of the story are loosely drawn from experience. In 1963 Kennedy returned from Puerto Rico, where he had been managing editor of the English-language San Juan Star, to write features for the Albany Times-Union. He soon found himself walking a picket line as a member of the striking Newspaper Guild. In The Ink Truck, the real is bent into the surreal. Dingy neighborhoods are weirdly illuminated by arsonists' flames; alleys echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy...
That was 1960, when Kennedy was a journalist in San Juan and the future Nobel prizewinner was a visiting teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. The island was also where Kennedy met Dana Sosa, a gifted dancer-singer who forsook the stage to raise three children and help her husband buy time to write during the lean years...
...government consultant on Puetto Rican constitutional affairs, about which he wrote his book Puerto Rico, Middle Round to Freedom. His work helped form the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Maass said...
...Blue Cross/Blue Shield, have notified health-care policyholders that they will be reimbursed for 100% of the cost of generic drugs but only 80% of the price of brand-name pills. Moreover, many drugstore chains are pushing low-priced generics. Walgreens, with 947 outlets in 30 states and Puerto Rico, says that when one of its pharmacists receives a prescription marked "no substitution," he is to call the doctor before filling the order. With the patient standing by, the druggist tells the physician how much more the brand-name drug costs than the generic...