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A Great Decade for Columns, Features

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The pages of the TT were enriched all decade long with a wealth of columns and features, some of which are still running. Perennial...
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Beware the ‘E-Word’

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Tour companies and publications here and abroad were warned not to use the word “ecotourism” because it was a registered trademark belonging to local...
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Not A Word!

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The Tico Times made journalistic history by stoically refraining – for more than a year – from publishing a single word about the O.J....
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Déja Vu – and Overspending Bill Came Due

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Costa Ricans moved into the 1990s with a growing hopefulness for regional peace and an understandable sense of déjà vu. For the second time...
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Ticos Cheered, Aided Sandinista Revolution

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When The Tico Times interviewed a Sandinista guerrilla-turned-shark fisherman in the Costa Rican Atlantic-coast fishing village of Barra del Colorado in 1976, nobody suspected...
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Tico Times Firsts

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• First newspaper in Costa Rica (along with Eco Catolico) to be printed on offset • First newspaper in Costa Rica to run color on...
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Quit Quelching With My Mind

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It could only happen at The Tico Times. EDITOR (To Writer No. 1): “You don’t squash a rumor. You quash a rumor.” WRITER No. 1 (authoritatively):...
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Robert Vesco: ‘The Whale in the Puddle’

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From the day Robert Vesco arrived in Costa Rica in 1972 until his departure five years later, hardly a week went by that his...
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Celebrated Scandals of the ’70s

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Swiss Trust Ban Corporation Investors lost $295,000 invested with a local company operated illegally as a bank by North Carolina native Robert Brown. His...
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‘Papa Polaco’ – Only in Costa Rica

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The election of Polish Pope John Paul II caused no end of mirth in Costa Rica, where “polaco” (Pole) is another word for “Jew,”...
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