Word: salvador
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...Salvador Renteria traveled illegally across the border in the early 1960s to work in Napa. He moved up from driving stakes in the vineyards as a laborer for $20 a day to being a salaried foreman and supervisor. His son Oscar earned a college degree while learning all his father knew about vineyard management. In 1987 Salvador opened Renteria Vineyard Management, which oversees 1,500 acres of vineyard for 27 high-profile clients, employs 130 people and hauls in revenues of $8 million a year. Recently Oscar, 36, who took over the company in 1993, launched the company...
...same thing they did in 2002, when Josh San Salvador capped a seven-run Harvard comeback with a walk-off home run to take an all-important, season-deciding Game 4 win from the Bears...
...sidelined with an injured hamstring, Walsh moved Hendricks—last year’s all-Ivy first baseman—to third base for this weekend’s games. In his stead, junior Marc Hordon—who split time at first with Hendricks and Josh San Salvador ’02 during his last season two years ago—played first base...
...European peacekeepers deployed in the southern towns came to Iraq believing they would be operating in a relatively benign environment, freeing up U.S. forces for counterinsurgency actions in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle. But the outbreak of hostilities in the southern cities has put troops from Italy, Spain, El Salvador, Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria on the front lines. The Bulgarian government called on Wednesday for U.S. reinforcements to help its 450 soldiers under fire in Karbala, while the Ukrainian contingent at Kut was chased out of town by angry Shiites who took over their base. And the Iraqi security forces...
...Steady Grip on Power EL SALVADOR The right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) won the presidential election for the fourth time in a row. Its candidate, Tony Saca, took 58% of the vote compared to 36% for his main rival, Schafik Handal of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the former guerrilla coalition...