Word: salvadoran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working to improve the lives of the people of El Salvador attacked by his own government and media as a traitor? If even the El Salvadoran government recognizes that a person receiving the legal minimum wage lives in "extreme poverty," why are sweatshops permitted to exist...
...season opener, a character calls her Salvadoran maid a "tamale" (NBC replaced the word with "honey...
...workers producing her Kathie Lee line of clothing. Tuesday morning, three years after the perky talk-show host and her husband handed out checks to unpaid Kathie Lee employees in a New York garment factory, two women announced they were fired from their jobs in an abusive El Salvadoran sweatshop, allegedly for raising the issue of workers? rights. The two women also allege that attempts to unionize have been met with death threats from lawyers representing the Korean-owned factory. Kathie Lee, of course, is quite displeased (and also very embarrassed) by this news and issued a statement stating that...
...attacking player, the competition McLaughlin will face will be especially fierce. The Revolution recently acquired standout El Salvadoran striker Raul Diaz Arce in a blockbuster trade which sent its most recognizable player--defender Alexi Lalas--southward to Metrostars...
...always to help the downtrodden; as a teenager she donated time to a soup kitchen. In 1989 she dropped out of M.I.T. and went to work with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a leftist group that opposed U.S. military aid to the right-wing Salvadoran government. She worked for cispes in New York City and Washington before pulling up stakes in 1991 and moving to Central America, where she spent time in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama. During occasional visits home to the U.S., she told friends she worked for human-rights organizations...