Word: dominicans
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Howard, a New Mexico native, grew up traveling the world with his Air Force father. He was a Peace Corps volunteer from August 1972 to August 1974 in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, and worked from 1976-79 for the Agency for International Development...
...corporations are drawn by the promise of a relatively inexpensive package deal. It typically includes airfare, accommodations, three buffet-style meals a day, theme parties and nightly entertainment, all for an average per-person price of $1,100 a week. More than 20 villages, from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic to Phuket in Thailand, have installed personal computers for executives to toy with when far away from the office. The new appeal to companies helped increase Club Med's revenues by 17% last year, to $843 million, and profits by 8%, to $38 million. For executives who have...
...Davis equivalent. Pressed to offer advice and counsel, since he has been in Czechoslovakia far more recently, Lendl considered the matter solemnly before responding "I would tell her to stay away from the dumplings." Navratilova and Evert Lloyd made their usual voracious work of the dumplings last week, though Dominican-born Mary Joe Fernandez, the latest model in a Florida baseliner, made a bright 6-4, 6-1 impression on the prototype. "It's been a while," smiled Chris, "since I played a 14-year-old." Pam Shriver, 23, an affable six-footer who has waited most patiently for Navratilova...
...like to go into some area of public service work, but I'm not sure exactly what," said Andrea Fastenberg '86, who will spend next year working with street children in the Dominican Republicon a Rockefeller Fellowship...
After 92% of the ballots had been tallied, conservative former President Joaquin Balaguer, 78, held a slender 35,000-vote lead over Jacobo Majluta, 51, the candidate of the ruling Dominican Revolutionary Party. Then, without explanation, the counters stopped counting. At that point Majluta suddenly declared himself the victor and demanded that two of the three board members be replaced by alternates for allegedly disqualifying thousands of his supporters. Balaguer and the third-place candidate Juan Bosch promptly protested that the two replacements favored Majluta. Later, Balaguer and Majluta agreed to seek the selection of an entirely new board...