Word: colombianizing
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...Colombian extension student, who went to his native country to organize a relief effort after last month's volcanic eruption, has returned from the disaster site where he set up a successful medical supply distribution system...
Operating out of a Bogota warehouse and with the help of Colombian volunteers, Melendez-Ortiz used computers to match the demands of the five major hospitals serving the stricken area...
...died with 15 other sky divers two weeks ago when his plane stalled and plunged to the ground in rural Jenkinsburg, Ga. The plane's wing tanks were spiked with sugar, indicating sabotage. Thornton and Williams knew each other, and authorities speculate that they skimmed a cocaine shipment from Colombian drug suppliers. After Thornton's death, Williams became a target for revenge. His fellow sky divers, according to this theory, were just innocent bystanders...
...than Disney World internationalism. On Union Street in Flushing, a Korean jeweler had a neighborhood monopoly until last winter, when a Chinese jeweler opened up next door and started selling identical merchandise. Just before the ill will turned physical, local Korean and Chinese merchants' associations mediated. For his part, Colombian Eddie Polafia, 14, thinks the neighborhood Koreans are unfairly antagonistic to him and the two dozen break-dancing Latin teenagers with whom he hangs out. The older Koreans, he complains, "think they control everything in Flushing." At last count they did own 120 neighborhood businesses. "Some of those store owners...
...syrup and Borjouri seltzer water direct from Soviet Georgia. El Mundo III in Jackson Heights is one of the city's 6,500 bodegas, tiny mama-y-papa Hispanic grocery stores that sell fresh coconuts and plantains, yucca and 10-lb. bags of rice, instant masa from Venezuela or Colombian figs in syrup. Compared with the big chain stores, bodegas are expensive but friendly, loose, Latin. "If you needed five cents," says the Cuban owner of a bodega on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, "the A&P wouldn't give it to you. Here, our customers are like family...