Word: silva
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LAST WEEK RON SILVA, the Bureau's program administrator, showed me a list of twenty-odd programs that were "on the slate," but when I spoke to Saravelas he could name only four programs currently in operation (excluding the Bureau's two $50,000 satellite projects and an educational census conducted in conjunction with the schools and a number of other city agencies). They were a Junior Advocate program (which trains youth to do counseling work), a psychology program, an alcoholism program in conjunction with the hospital, and the cosmetics program...
...internal to the Bureau. Like a large number of their co-workers, these two complained that Saravelas used to kill their proposals by saying that the Bureau's board of directors had vetoed them. Later, the staff learned that the board only had advisory powers. When Saravelas hired Ron Silva for the newly created post of program administrator, thereby reversing the decision of the hiring committee, dissension was widespread. Saravelas dissolved all total staff meetings, and six staff members, including Tyree, signed a letter calling for Saravelas's resignation...
...told me that he could produce "as many positive reactions as you can write negative," and that until I submitted an outline of my article in writing, "you can't talk to us anymore." The outline he mentioned, as explained to me earlier in the week by Ron Silva, the Bureau's program administrator, was to include the specific purpose of my article, the costs and benefits to the Bureau of the time that staff members would spend talking to me, and the specific questions I wanted to ask the staff...
...Osmar Silva, 33, a construction worker, admits that "it's hard coming here every day. I get off work at 5:30 and have to be here at 6:30. We don't have any bathrooms we can use. But the teachers are interested in us, so it's worth it." Silva decided to come to Mobral because his seven-year-old can already read and write. "He's proud of me, and when he sees how hard I work, it encourages him to work hard...
Most Mobral students seem convinced that if they can learn to read they will get better jobs. Arlene Silva Bacca, 29, a domestic servant who attends a center in Copacabana, has been studying for three months. "When I get my certificate I will become a secretary," she says. Genival Silva Costa, 46, a plasterer, is studying because his boss promised him a job as doorman or elevator operator if he finishes the course...