Word: y
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ortega seems eager, however, to give at least the appearance of cooperation. He quickly formed the Nicaraguan version of the "national reconciliation commission" that each country must set up to monitor compliance with the pact. He invited opposition political groups and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the archbishop of Managua, to nominate candidates for the four-person panel. As a friendly gesture to Arias, Nicaragua dropped its lawsuit in the World Court charging Costa Rica with violating international law by harboring contras...
...corporations are spending big money to woo Spanish speakers in their native tongue on radio, television and in print. Traditional English-language advertising agencies and a flock of bright, lively Hispanic firms are rushing to grab a piece of the business. Says Andres Sullivan, creative director of Mendoza, Dillon y Asociados, an eight-year-old Hispanic ad agency based in Newport Beach, Calif.: "People are realizing there's a major business opportunity out there...
Professor of Business Administration Carliss Y. Baldwin, a finance scholar who has been on the school's faculty since 1981, will be the third professor currently teaching at the school. The other tenured woman, Henrietta Larsen, gained tenure in 1961. She died...
...leave a family sitting out there ((when)) you obviously have the possibility of assuring a little more comfort than I have done so far." One sign that Volcker was ready to make major changes in his life-style came March 18: he gave up his trademark 28 cents Antonio y Cleopatra cigars because both his wife and a close friend had stopped smoking...
...demand. Reason: a face-lift or tummy tuck south of the Rio Grande costs about 40% of what it does in the U.S. "An operation that typically costs $5,000 in the U.S. can be had for about $2,000 here," says Dr. Jorge Lopez y Garcia, a plastic surgeon from Mexico City. Lopez, a graduate of the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at New York University Medical Center, flies to Nuevo Laredo twice a month to attend to his growing practice. Most of his patients are women from Texas seeking restorative surgery...