Sentence examples for rican from inspiring English sources
noun
An element of nouns describing persons from places with names containing "Rico" or "Rica".
Back then there were still Puerto Rican gangs, defending their turf against white or black rivals.
Mr Chávez has renamed it "Indian Resistance Day".Costa Rican prosecutors were standing by to arrest the head of the Organisation of American States, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, as soon as his term and immunity from prosecution officially expired on October 15th.
Anyone still tempted to idealise the Olympics really ought to read Mr Payne's account of the IOC's wrath as visited on a 1996 Costa Rican swimmer and gold medallist who turned out to have snuck a Pepsi advertisement onto her cap.
Hours after Intel announced its departure, Bank of America said it would close its Costa Rican operations as part of a global restructuring programme, laying off 1,400 workers.It is a grim start for the new government of Luis Guillermo Solís, who will be sworn in as president on May 8th.
Puerto Rican state agencies fall in a gap in America's bankruptcy code: they are excluded from the regimes both for local governments and private firms.
IN AN intriguing exchange a few days ago, Dani Rodrik expressed his faith in the Costa Rican people, who were busy participating in referendum on whether or not that nation ought to participate in the CAFTA regional trade agreement.
KARLA BLANCO started working for Intel in 1997, when the microchip giant opened its factory in the Costa Rican rainforest.
It is no coincidence that integrated circuits today account for over 50% of Costa Rican exports, far more than bananas and coffee combined.Will the $100 laptop happen?
According to a poll by Borge & Associates, a Costa Rican polling firm, a ticket of Mr Lewites with Mr Montealegre as his vice-president would win 68% of the vote.
And in the supermarket sector, Guatemalan and Costa Rican brands can now be found everywhere.But tourism could prove an even more powerful integrating force, Mr Condo believes.
Only 27% of Central Americans (and just 10% of Nicaraguans) are enrolled in their national social-security systems, according to Miguel Gutiérrez Saxe, a Costa Rican economist who compiles regional data.
