Word: ruben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ruben Berrios-Martinez, the president of the independence party, said that the idea of the U.S. giving Puerto Rico" any kind of self-determination is pure hypocrisy as long as there is colonialism...
...believe the backgrounds of the men who have declared their membership in El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front-There's Guillermo Ungo, a prominent Social Democrat, and member of the first (U.S. supported) junta. Colonel Adolfo Majano, a former military officer. Francisco Diaz, Alberto Arene, Hector Dada Hirezi, Ruben Zamora, Roberto Lara Velado, Oscar Menjivar, Julietta De Colinderes, all of them former leaders of the Christian Democratic Party. Undoubtedly there are some arms coming from Nicaragua, perhaps by way of Cuba and Moscow. Which only goes to prove that sometimes the worst governments are on the right side. And that...
Sometimes, though, the venture money disappears. Some recent failures: Ruben Engineering Corp., a Cambridge, Mass., office equipment firm that cost its backers $4 million in losses; Ontrax, which went through $1.5 million trying to make computer disc drives; and Environmental Development Corp., which spent at least $1 million in venture capital trying to sell waste-water-treatment services to cities...
...What fascinates me," says Ruben Gibson, 32, a black from The Bronx, "is when we lay the stone for the cathedral the same way it comes from the ground, the grain horizontal. St. John the Divine is really a gray mountain." Gibson is foreman of the machine shop. He supervises the lifting of the big limestone slabs from the trucks. Then with chalk he diagrams each block with the outlines of the dozen or more stones that must be cut from it. "The great trick is not to waste any. They are very expensive and they cost as much...
Other students do not see the Ed School's role as clearly as Levinson does. "The last thing you'd see at the Ed School is a child," first-year doctoral student Ruben A. Carriedo says, criticizing the school for placing too much emphasis on theory and not enough on actual classroom practice. "There is an uncertainty that surrounds the school. Questions like 'What is the mission of the school?' and 'What are its priorities...