Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Xavier Roberts, creator of the Cabbage Patch Kids and chairman of Original Appalachian Artworks of Cleveland, Ga., is not amused. Last week his company sued Topps for copyright infringement. Roberts thinks that the Cabbage Patch Kids' angelic image is being damaged by the devilish tykes from the Garbage Pail...
...significant change in the number of sports participants over the past two years. Swimming, including mere splashing around the local pool, remained the most popular activity (41% of Americans did it at least once last year). Fishing (34%) nosed out bicycling (33%) for second. New York City Endocrinologist Xavier Pi- Sunyer says that data thus far in the '80s indicate that a little less than one-third of men and more than one-third of women are obese, just as they were a decade ago. "The evidence," says Editor T George Harris of American Health magazine, still "shows that...
...lives of many residents straddle the boundary. "Half of my family is in the U.S.," says Francisco Xavier Rivas, 36, who runs an industrial park in Mexicali. "It's interesting when we get together. Those from the U.S. speak almost no Spanish, those from Mexicali speak so-so Spanish, while those from Mexico City speak very good Spanish." Cathy Hernandez, 29, was born in Juarez but went through high school in El Paso. She is an international banking officer at the First City National Bank of El Paso. Her husband Javier, 32, works as a supervisor at a racetrack...
...result, U.S. Catholicism often seems unfriendly and unfamiliar to Hispanics. Says Xavier Murrieta, a Mexican immigrant in the Protestant Centro de Amor Cristiano in Phoenix: "In small Mexican villages the local priest is a family counselor, the doctor, the lawyer. That ingredient is missing here." Roberto Martinez, who owns a Chicago restaurant favored by Hispanics, believes that U.S. priests do not mingle enough. Says he: "I've never met a priest in my restaurant, but I've met a hundred reverends...
Across town, customers of Home State kept up a wail of protest because their savings will remain frozen until authorities find a healthier partner to take over the shuttered bank. About 3,000 depositors gathered last week at Xavier University's field house for an emotional rally to urge the state to speed up action. New York's Citicorp has emerged as the prime merger candidate. A host of state and federal investigators are looking into Home State's ties with E.S.M. Government Securities, a Fort Lauderdale dealer in Treasury bills and bonds whose March 4 closing forced Home State...