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BUY LOW, SELL HIGH

www.ibolsa.com (Spanish, English, Portuguese)

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If you know what you're doing in the stock market, iBolsa provides a straightforward interface. If you don't, its education and news pages can teach you a bunch, Aimed at Spanish- and Portuguese-speakers, the site nevertheless can be seen and used in English. Worth a look, if only for a cheap education on markets and trading.

CHANGING TIMES

www.secodam.gob.mx (Spanish)

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Mexico's Secretariat Secretariat, 1970–89, thoroughbred race horse. Trained by Lucien Laurin and ridden by Ron Turcotte, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes to capture the Triple Crown in 1973.
Secretariat

(foaled 1970) U.S.
 of the Comptroller and Administrative Development is on a mission, or so it says: "To be an agent of permanent change." With that Fox-like rallying cry Noun 1. rallying cry - a slogan used to rally support for a cause; "a cry to arms"; "our watchword will be `democracy'"
war cry, watchword, battle cry, cry

catchword, motto, shibboleth, slogan - a favorite saying of a sect or political group

2.
, what is often a black box of centralized cen·tral·ize  
v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es

v.tr.
1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate.

2.
, big government--its internal decision-making--gets hung out here in detail. At least, that's the idea.

CELLULOID celluloid [from cellulose], transparent, colorless synthetic plastic made by treating cellulose nitrate with camphor and alcohol. Celluloid was the first important synthetic plastic and was widely used as a substitute for more expensive substances, such as  HEROES

www.vanguard-cinema.com (English)

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Major film studios are studying ways to send movies over the Net. They're already behind the times, as this small California site attests. Full of interesting titles that probably won't make it to your local video store, including Spanish-language films, Vanguard Vanguard

Any of three unmanned U.S. experimental satellites. Vanguard I (1958), the second U.S. satellite placed in orbit around Earth (after Explorer 1), was a tiny 3.25-lb (1.47-kg) sphere with two radio transmitters.
 offers to sell, rent and--if you're up to it--even download full-length previews of its wares We love "wares" in this industry as noted below. See also warez.

abandonware adware annoyware badware beltware betaware bloatware boardware brochureware bridgeware censorware cloudware courseware crapware crimeware crippleware crossware crudware demoware donateware dribbleware
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