Word: salazarism
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...hitched to the stars. Indeed, it is hard to overstate Nike's veneration for top jocks. The company's verdant campus headquarters just outside Portland is a sort of perspiration museum. Knight's office is in the John McEnroe Building. Other structures are named for Jordan and marathoners Alberto Salazar and Joan Benoit Samuelson. Preschool linebackers are dropped off in the Joe Paterno day-care facility, while the grownups work out in the Bo Jackson sports center...
America is influenced by people other than those you perceive from your elitist, myopic perch. America is not just black and white anymore; it is also brown. Your failure to name even one Hispanic is unacceptable. JOSE CLAUDIO SALAZAR Houston...
...another room upstairs, a rebel shot Supreme Court Justice Carlos Giusti Acuna. Giusti died on the way to the hospital of a heart attack. During a fierce fire fight in which Lieut. Raul Jimenez Salazar was killed, another hostage, Agriculture Minister Rodolfo Munante Sanguinetti, had a close call. A guerrilla dashed into the room where he was hiding with several others and raised his rifle. But he did not pull the trigger. "He just left without shooting or lobbing a grenade at us," Munante recalled. "I got the impression the boy suddenly felt bad about what he and the rebels...
DIED. MIGUEL TORGA, 87, Portugal's most admired contemporary writer; in Coimbra. A practicing physician for most of his life despite his fame as a man of letters, Torga was a liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against...
...Iowa, last month won the first new insurance license Mexican authorities have issued to a foreign firm in more than 50 years. Principal has a 30% stake in a Mexican venture that markets insurance and pension plans. "The Mexican insurance industry needs a dose of marketing expertise," says Camilo Salazar, vice president of international operations for Principal...