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  Arroyo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arroyo Seco is a creek and drainage channel in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.
Arroyo Hondo (Fresno County, California), a stream in Fresno County, California
Arroyo is sometimes used as a phonetic descriptor of the call of the Canaan Dog
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arroyo   (278 words)

  
 Philippines-Arroyo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Arroyo was vice president when she was swept to power in 2001, after the ouster of Joseph Estrada amid huge protests over allegations of massive corruption and misrule.
Arroyo won her own six-year term last year, but it came under a cloud seven weeks ago with the emergence of recordings of phone conversations in which Arroyo and an election official purportedly discussed ways to ensure a million-vote lead for her and restrain a possible witness to fraud.
Arroyo apologized for phoning the official before she was declared winner, but denied manipulating the outcome.
www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050719/w071906.html   (664 words)

  
 TIMEasia Magazine: Under Siege
Arroyo maintained it was an innocent call, not an attempt to rig the ballot, but acknowledged a "lapse in judgment" and asked the citizenry to "close this chapter." So important was the speech that she gave it twice, in English and then in Tagalog, which is more comprehensible to most Filipinos.
Even as Arroyo was trying to rescue her presidency from a vertiginous tailspin, a potential rallying figure for the opposition made a dramatic debut.
The tax was a key part of Arroyo's plan to raise government revenues to plug the Philippines' chronic budget deficit, and its suspension was a major blow to the President's hopes of revitalizing the economy.
www.time.com /time/asia/2005/phil_arroyo/story.html   (826 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Red Sox / Plot twists for Arroyo, A-Rod
It's a little strange because Rodriguez is a megastar, the highest-paid player in the history of the game, while Arroyo is in his 11th season of pro ball and has only 19 major league wins.
Arroyo is the one who hit A-Rod in the elbow, triggering the infamous July 24 brawl.
Three months later, Arroyo was the one holding the baseball in his glove when A-Rod executed his girlie-man slap, a play that lives forever on screen-savers around the world (one version has Rodriguez hitting Arroyo with a purse while the other shows Alex with Hamburger Helper hands).
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/02/20/plot_twists_for_arroyo_a_rod   (506 words)

  
 Kickin': Whether on the mound or on stage, Bronson Arroyo hits a high note
Arroyo, a 6-foot-5 string bean with a high leg kick and a nasty assortment of off-speed stuff, has plunked only two hitters this year, but they were doozies.
Arroyo was hit with six games, and the plan right now is for him to make one more start (Monday in Oakland) before dropping his appeal and serving his punishment.
Arroyo's main weapon is his assortment of breaking pitches - curve and slider mostly, with an occasional changeup - that he can throw for strikes on any count.
ledger.southofboston.com /articles/2005/05/14/sports/sports01.txt   (1742 words)

  
 Arroyo, Puerto Rico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Arroyo derives its name from the small stream from which weary travelers in the past stopped for a drink of water and to rest.
Arroyo is located in the region known as the Southern Coastal Valley, a very dry region.
Arroyo's Hospital Lafayette is one of the oldest private hospitals in the southeast of the island.
welcome.topuertorico.org /city/arroyo.shtml   (138 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Thousands demand ouster of Arroyo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
At a reception on the eve of Philippine independence, Arroyo said "purveyors of instability and intrigue" were undermining her efforts to reform the economy.
Claims of payoffs to Arroyo's son and a brother-in-law from illegal gambling operators and an alleged wiretapped conversation between Arroyo and an election official to fix the 2004 vote, come as she battles poverty, rising prices, a fiscal deficit, corruption and the lowest popularity rating since late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Arroyo said she was focused "like a laser beam" on reforms "to turn this economy around, and no one will deter me from that mission."
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-06-11-filipinos-protest_x.htm   (682 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - Arroyo to form truth commission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has reiterated that she will not step down while announcing the creation of a truth commission to look into vote rigging allegations against her.
Arroyo said that quitting, when she has not been charged with any wrongdoing, would undercut the country's fragile democracy.
Typical of her combative nature, Arroyo pointed out that allegations of vote rigging were raised during and after the count for the May 2004 vote, which international observers said was generally fair.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/D6F9F50E-3AFE-479B-9305-E9359CF0A071.htm   (535 words)

  
 SDNHM - Arroyo Toad
The Arroyo Toad is a relatively small (2-3 inches snout-vent length) frog.
Later, the Arroyo Toad tadpoles become tan as opposed to the darker color of the Western Toad larvae.
The Arroyo Toad inhabits coastal southern California from Salinas River Basin in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties to Arroyo San Simón in northern Baja California, México.
www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/herps/bufo-cal.html   (909 words)

  
 The Middletown Press - News - 06/04/2005 - Arroyo sentenced to 60 years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Arroyo was found guilty by a jury in December, but he was also acquitted on the charges of intentional murder and first-degree robbery.
Arroyo’s defense during his trial was based on this including having an alibi from another person.
Arroyo had 11 convictions since 1992, and four of those were felonies, and two were for violations of probation.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14640360&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=10856&rfi=6   (1184 words)

  
 MIKE ARROYO: I AM NOT JOSE PIDAL
Arroyo's secretary and accountant, said in an interview over dzMM from Vancouver she, her brother Thomas and brother-in-law Kelvin Tan own the accounts that Lacson said is Mr.
Arroyo said there was "nothing sinister" in the LTA Building on Perea St., Makati, as Lacson had pictured in his privilege speech at the Senate Monday.
Arroyo told Perez that she was seen by "assets" interviewing the fugitive senator, who denies participating in the July 27 failed mutiny.
www.newsflash.org /2003/05/pe/pe002705.htm   (1401 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Arroyo's Cabinet member quits amid scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Separate accusations that Arroyo's relatives — including her husband — took kickbacks from illegal gambling have deepened the political scandal that has buffeted her administration, causing the stock market and the peso to slide and raising concerns that the country could fall into chaos.
Arroyo's husband, Mike, a son, the son's wife and daughter and a nanny left for Hong Kong on Thursday evening.
Arroyo on Monday acknowledged in a televised speech that she talked to an election official about protecting a million-vote victory margin in the election — as leaked wiretap recordings had suggested.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-06-30-philippines-cabinet_x.htm?csp=34   (809 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Red Sox / Mixed bag for Arroyo
Arroyo was penciled in as the fifth starter in the rotation because of an injury to Byung Hyun Kim during spring training.
Arroyo, since he was scheduled to pitch yesterday, caught a flight home earlier.
His role this spring was in limbo until fifth starter Kim developed a right shoulder strain, moving Arroyo into the rotation.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/04/10/mixed_bag_for_arroyo?mode=PF   (563 words)

  
 CNN.com - Arroyo: We need parliamentary rule - Jul 25, 2005
In her annual state of the nation address to the Congress, Arroyo said the country needed to adopt changes to meet the challenges of the new millennium, according to The Associated Press.
Arroyo's ruling coalition holds majorities in both the Philippines' houses of congress.
Arroyo has denied manipulating the May 2004 ballot by discussing vote counting with an election official before she was declared the winner.
edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/philippines.arroyo.impeach   (586 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Arroyo trade rumors renewed
But he does not deny discussing Arroyo and other Jazz players with various teams around the league, and Tuesday he again did not rule out the possibility of the 14-26 team making some sort of trade before the NBA's Feb. 24 deadline.
Whether Arroyo is part of any such deal, however, remains to be seen.
Arroyo, the starting point guard for Puerto Rico's national team in last summer's Olympic Games, signed a four-year, $16 million contract this past offseason.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600105837,00.html   (483 words)

  
 Philippines: Is President Arroyo on Her Way Out? - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
Arroyo's son and brother-in-law, both elected lawmakers, are under investigation for influence peddling—a situation that has understandably bred cynicism regarding the government's claim to be mounting a decisive campaign against corruption.
Arroyo, then the vice president, led mass rallies that ousted him from office after impeachment efforts stalled in the Senate.
Arroyo's strategy for avoiding the same fate is to ask the people for "a six-month probation period," says Salceda.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8444215/site/newsweek   (1655 words)

  
 CNN.com - Poll: Most say Arroyo should go - Jul 10, 2005
Some of Arroyo's sacked cabinet members, including her key economic managers, have urged her to step down and hand over power to de Castro, the constitutional successor.
Arroyo's second term is due to run until 2010.
No single option regarding Arroyo could claim to be morally correct, Fernando Capalla, outgoing president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), said on Sunday, reading a statement by the bishops.
edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/07/10/arroyo.poll   (665 words)

  
 JOE ARROYO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Joe Arroyo (full name Alvaro José Arroyo Gonzalez), son of Guillermo Arroyo and Angela González, was born on 1st November 1955 in Cartagena, a city of about 1 million inhabitants on the northern Colombian coast.
Many of Arroyo´s songs and lyrics can be seen in the light of that incident and he ever since acredit a lot to "the higher force" and for example wrote the song "A mi Dios todo le debo"(To my God I owe everything).
Arroyo regulary on his records goes back to do a lot of songs within the traditional Colombian music styles, "Para que no me olviden"(so you won´t forget me!)like he says himself.
www.angelfire.com /band2/salsa/joe_arroyo.html   (1651 words)

  
 City of Arroyo Grande: Local History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Arroyo Grande is located on the beautiful Central Coast of California mid-way between Los Angeles and San Fransisco.
Arroyo Grande is situated two miles east of the Pacific Ocean, 15 miles south of San Luis Obispo, and 15 miles north of Santa Maria just off Highway 101.
The earliest inhabitants of the Arroyo Grande Valley were the northern or Obispeno Chumash Indians.
www.arroyogrande.org /general/history.php   (298 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Arroyo urges constitution change
Philippines President Gloria Arroyo has called for governmental reform as she fights for her political survival.
Mrs Arroyo's speech came as opponents filed an impeachment motion over claims she interfered in 2004 elections.
Mrs Arroyo did not refer to the impeachment motion, which accuses her of betraying her country over a telephone call she made to an independent election official during the counting of the votes last year.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4714055.stm   (546 words)

  
 TIME Asia Magazine: Can She Hold On? -- Jul. 18, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Last week Gloria Macapagal Arroyo jumped the gun on the speech scheduled for July 25 because, as she told her countrymen in a hurried radio address, the nation's state was so parlous it needed fixes that couldn't wait.
Arroyo also said she couldn't resign in the wake of allegations that she fixed last year's presidential election because it would show the Philippines to be "hopelessly unstable."
Arroyo's address was the most eloquent of her career, and her points about the Philippines' hurly-burly political system might have hit home—if her own widely criticized presidency weren't hanging by the thinnest of threads.
www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501050718-1081444,00.html   (803 words)

  
 Arroyo del Oso - Golf - City of Albuquerque
The course is located in the Bear Canyon Arroyo from which the course gets its name, and which makes for interesting topography.
While it is not a tough course, the large greens, rolling fairways, three water-hole obstacles, and sand traps make it best suited for the intermediate to advanced player with 6,545 yards Par 72 for men, and 6,015 yards Par 73 for women.
Arroyo del Oso was rated in the top 50 Municipal Golf Courses in the Country by Golf Digest Magazine in 1981.
www.cabq.gov /golf/arroyo.html   (176 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Arroyo wants back into Jazz lineup
Arroyo wonders how he can do that when court time in practice comes in the same ratio as court time in games — and he's played just two minutes in the last five games.
Arroyo said Thursday, however, that he not only plans to get back on the court for the Jazz but also expects to stay with Utah a long time, despite nationwide rumors that he might be ripe for a swap.
Kirilenko is still expected to be activated for Saturday's game with Memphis in the Delta Center at 7 p.m., and Collins is a possibility, having been cleared by his doctor Tuesday to return to full practices Thursday.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600106251,00.html   (641 words)

  
 Gloria Arroyo Admits Guilt
Arroyo said she would not resign and appealed for unity as she addressed the 3-week-old political crisis over the wiretapped phone conversation.
Roilo Golez, a former national security adviser under Arroyo, withdrew support for her late yesterday, saying she should resign because she has lost her moral authority to lead and that the issue would paralyze Congress when it convenes next month.
Arroyo has also been damaged by accusations her son and brother-in-law, both members of Congress, pocketed huge illegal gambling payoffs.
www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=66032&d=28&m=6&y=2005   (608 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Arroyo: Books: Donald R Burleson,Donald R. Burleson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Arroyo is set in the small New Mexico town of Chasco, a town north of Roswell on the way to Fort Sumner, some miles down the road past the turnoff to Corona.
Arroyo is a novel that I found extremely entertaining, and so well written that I did not want it to end.
Arroyo will indeed appeal to readers of science fiction and UFO suspense stories, but anyone who enjoys polished prose combined with a well crafted suspense story will also enjoy this novel.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0964958023?v=glance   (997 words)

  
 PASADENA And The Arroyo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Although it was touched by the genteel, Arroyo Culture gloried in local circumstances: in Indians and Mexicans, in the blankets, pottery, jewelry, colors, and physical textures of Southern California as desert Spanish Southwest.
Arroyo Pasadena—symbolically and to a certain extent in fact—lived on the edge of the wilderness; for the rocks and chaparral of the Arroyo Seco brought the ecology of the untamed interior right into the suburbs.
To build homes on the Arroyo, as did these bohemians, was to embrace the symbol of desert wilderness and to glory in Southern California's resistant, elemental texture.
www.friendcalib.org /lit-landmarks/pasadena/star2-2.html   (4380 words)

  
 The Taylor Family Foundation
Camp Arroyo is a year-round camp open to children from Northern California.
Camp Arroyo's summer program offers lodging, food, sports activities, arts, crafts, special projects, lifeguards and hospitality to each group at no charge to the children or families.
Camp Arroyo is used by children from kindergarten through college during the academic year on a fee-use basis.
www.ttff.org /camp/who.html   (463 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Protesters want Arroyo out
Arroyo's popularity — already at the lowest level since that for late dictator Ferdinand Marcos — has taken more hits since the release of an alleged wiretapped conversation between Arroyo and an election official to fix the 2004 vote, and claims of payoffs to Arroyo's son and brother-in-law from illegal gambling operators.
Arroyo has been battling poverty, rising prices, a fiscal deficit and corruption.
On Friday, the dismissed deputy head of the justice department's investigation agency claimed he was the source of an audio recording that purportedly has Arroyo talking to an election official about fixing last year's election to gain a 1 million-vote margin against her closest rival, Fernando Poe Jr.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002331342_arroyo12.html   (582 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Boston Red Sox Player Card
Arroyo offers a four-seam fastball that tops out in the high 80s to low 90s.
The wiry Arroyo is a fine fielder, and his quick delivery makes him one of Boston's better pitchers at holding runners.
Right-hander Bronson Arroyo and the Boston Red Sox agreed Thursday to a three-year contract worth about $12 million, avoiding arbitration.
sports.espn.go.com /mlb/players/profile?statsId=6498   (153 words)

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