Chavez
Americannoun
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Carlos 1899–1978, Mexican composer and conductor.
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Cesar (Estrada) 1927–93, U.S. labor leader: organizer of migrant farmworkers.
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Chavez became the sixth City Section school eliminated from the playoffs for using an ineligible player and was replaced by Chatsworth for the City Division I final.
From Los Angeles Times
Salon Food spoke with Chef Stephen Chavez, Senior Chef-Instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education’s Los Angeles campus, who offered his go-to tips on how to cook sans any chopped onions.
From Salon
The reforms were chaotic and did little to strengthen property rights or the rule of law, said Juan Barreto, a former mayor of Caracas who supported Chavez but broke with Maduro.
For almost 10 years, he said he was blacklisted by Chavez’s oil managers, who barred him from directly buying supplies from state energy monopoly PdVSA, forcing him to work through government-allied intermediaries to acquire asphalt.
They can’t be so insulated that they don’t notice the protests in city streets that resemble those near Chavez Ravine.
From Los Angeles Times
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