Word: spain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...different world where there is no pure blood (we are all "mixes," thank God!) and mature once and for all? Maybe Barack Obama cannot change our country that much. But he might make us all more aware of the so-called brotherhood of man. Christy Cox, CANTABRIA, SPAIN...
...building on Arosa Island in Galicia, just 20 m from the sea, where wealthy people will end up owning luxury flats. Consequently I believe she does not deserve to be on the list of heroes as her policies are not equal for all. Pablo Candela Alvarez, ALICANTE, SPAIN...
...under the English Channel, caused such high cost overruns that the British economy may have been better off without it, he said. Flyvbjerg recommended that planners adjust their estimates based on budgetary overruns from similar projects in order to combat this problem. He cited the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain as a successful project that resulted in a zero percent cost overrun. Jerold S. Kayden, the co-chair of the GSD’s Department of Urban Planning and Design, said that Flyvbjerg’s expertise on the costs and benefits of megaproject construction is especially relevant today...
...ruling is based on his own finding that Franco and 34 of his generals and ministers were guilty of crimes against humanity both for initiating the 1936 military uprising against Spain's legally elected democratic government, and for subsequently attempting to systematically eliminate the regime's supposed political enemies. Garzón has also ordered the exhumation of 19 mass graves from the era, including, most notably, one that is supposedly the final resting place of poet Federico García Lorca...
...recent years, Spain's Socialist government has made some efforts to redress the complaints of victims of the regime and their family members. The Law of Historical Memory, passed in 2007, provides pensions for soldiers who fought in the Republican army and includes a provision that denies the legitimacy of Franco's political trials. But for someone like Silva, whose own grandfather, an activist with a progressive party called Republican Left, was assassinated by pro-Franco Falangists in 1936, that law doesn't go far enough. "The political branch of the government is still refusing to publicly recognize the victims...