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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just surviving, I'm not succeeding," says Aurelio ("Lio") Maldonado, a Chicago bill collector. He, his wife Rita, a legal secretary, son Adrian, 6, and daughter Clarissa, 5 months, make up the classic family of four, and their income of $44,000--a bit more than half earned by Rita--is smack in the middle nationally. Their three-bedroom home in the Westlawn neighborhood is comfortable, but the $860 monthly mortgage payments and $300 a month owed on the family's 1992 Firebird eat up about a third of their earnings. The couple would like to keep Adrian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF THE UNION: ARE WE BETTER OFF? | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

Ultimately, the intimacy of the Loeb Ex space makes for colored girls attractive and successful. The production retains the closeness of a poetry reading but contains the power of an Ibsen tragedy. The quality of this production gives hope for a similar production of other poetry-cycles such as Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah. With Matthews fine production of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf as precedent, it would be a pity if nothing else was attempted in the same vein...

Author: By Roland Tan, | Title: for colored girls Shines On Stripped-Down Stage | 1/17/1996 | See Source »

...policies weren't clearly articulated, and we did not have any ongoing oversight once the company was approved," said Rita C. Manak, director of the university's Office of Technology Transfer...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Small Policy Differences Could Have Big Results | 11/7/1995 | See Source »

...Malian government, based upon the French political system, has both a prime minister and a president at its helm. The prime minister is the more influential of the two government leaders, said Rita M. Breen, executive officer for the Committee on African Studies...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: Mali's Top Leader Speaks on Reform | 10/17/1995 | See Source »

...something of a miracle that Mother Angelica entered the religious life. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, and the product of a broken home, she remembers the sisters who taught her in parochial school as "the meanest people on God's earth." Nonetheless, at 18 she joined the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a traditional, strictly cloistered order of Franciscan nuns with special devotion to the consecrated host which is, Catholics believe, the Body of Christ. Crippled in a work accident, she vowed to establish a convent of her own in the predominantly Protestant South if she regained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHER KNOWS BEST | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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