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...common, Sears since 1960 has lifted sales from $103 million to $150 million. In the last decade-despite the nationalization of six stores by Castro's Cuba-Sears has tripled its number of stores to 64 in nine countries from Costa Rica to Brazil (plus seven in Puerto Rico). This week its top Latin American executives will meet in Mexico City, site of the biggest operation, to discuss further expansion. Next year the company will open two stores in Spain-its first European venture-and transfer some of its Latin American chiefs there...
...Task Force has recommended that even more of the training take place outside the college campus, in radically unfamiliar environments slums or rural areas or Job Corps camps, or in other cultures such as Puerto Rico, or in the foreign countries themselves...
...Peace Corps' own training centers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...
...real-life experiences in the field, based on the needs of specific projects and countries," Pagano explained. "The training period has been expanded to 13 weeks with at least three of those weeks devoted to actual field assignments such as working in the slums of New York or Puerto Rico, practice teaching on Indian reservations or doing community development in the Virgin Islands...
Problems & Solutions. Tourism pumps $120 million a year into Puerto Rico's economy and is the fourth-ranking industry. Yet the luxury hotels on San Juan's beach front, towering not far from the fetid slum of La Perla, symbolize the island's problems. With 2,600,000 inhabitants (686 persons per sq. mi.), Puerto Rico is one of the world's most densely populated countries. Merely to keep up with the increase in population will require a giant jump in job openings-some 200,000 more in ten years-and Governor Sanchez has made employment...