Word: tiempo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credits the revolution with improving her life. As one of 12 brothers and sisters on a marginal farm in the 1950s, she almost never ate meat. Her brothers worked the sugarcane fields three months a year, then the family virtually starved the other nine months during the farmers' traditional tiempo muerto, or dead time. Her whole family turned out when rebel Camilo Cienfuegos passed through on his way to fight the dictator Fulgencio Batista...
...They make all these promises, but they don't deliver," says Armando C. Chapelli Jr. "With the Republican party, I know I ain't getting anything." Chapelli, a former Cuban refugee, is now CEO of a Washington consulting firms and publisher of El Tiempo Latino, the largest Spanish newspaper in the District of Columbia...
Three years ago, Santos exposed the drug cartels' control of 11 of Colombia's 15 regional soccer teams in Bogota's El Tiempo, a newspaper owned by his family...
Rodriguez also took credit for tipping off the police last June, when a truck packed with 800 kg of dynamite was disarmed before it could be parked outside the offices of the daily El Tiempo. He knew about it, Rodriguez said, because his people had intercepted a radio-phone call in which Escobar promised a "big, big surprise" for the newspaper...
Bogota's El Tiempo reported that poor maintenance had caused two near crashes in the past two months, prompting indignant pilots to send a letter of protest to Avianca management. The pilots cited 37 failures of flight-control equipment on one plane alone between last October and December, said the paper...