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Definitions: La Paz |
La PazNoun1. City in western Bolivia and the administrative seat of Bolivia's government; largest city in Bolivia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: La Paz |
| Non-English Usage: "La Paz" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (peace). |
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La Paz is the name for
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Movie/TV Titles | En busca de la paz (1973) Pasaporte para la paz (Postales de España) (1967) Diálogos de la paz (1965) Un Techo para la paz (1964) Forjadores de la paz (1962) | |
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Business | With a bid of $255.6 million, Aeropuertos Mexicanos del Pacifico, S.A. c.V. won late last year a 15 years concession (which grants a 15 percent ownership of the group of airports) to manage and operate a group of 12 airports on the Pacific coast, including the airports of Aguascalientes, Bajio, La Paz, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Los Mochis, Manzanillo, Mexicali, Morelia, Puerto Vallarta, San Jose del Cabo, and Tijuana. (references) | |
Children | Honduras | Casa Alianza continues to train police recruits at the National Police Academy in La Paz department. (references) |
Bolivia | At least two NGO's, Fundacion La Paz and Q'Haruru, have active programs to combat child prostitution. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bolivia | The 40-person La Paz Press Tribunal, an independent body, is authorized to evaluate journalists' practices that are alleged to violate either the Constitution or citizens' rights. (references) |
Economic History | Bolivia | The main distribution center is La Paz, Bolivia's largest city and the seat of Government. (references) |
Bolivia | La Paz is at the highest elevation of the world's capital cities--3,600 meters (11,800 ft.) above sea level. (references) | |
Bolivia | Traditionally most import houses, distributors and agencies use La Paz as their major central outlet, with branches in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bolivia | On March 8, convict Jose Valentin Mujica was found hanged at the maximum security San Pedro de Chonchocoro prison located near La Paz. (references) |
Bolivia | For example, in the poorest parts of San Pedro prison in La Paz, inmates occupy tiny cells (3 by 4 by 6 feet) with no ventilation, lighting, or beds. (references) | |
Bolivia | By early 1999, the Judicial Council had investigated numerous reports of judicial corruption, which led to the resignation or dismissal of more than 20 judges in Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, and La Paz. (references) | |
Minorities | Bolivia | The majority of Afro-Bolivians live in the Yungas region of the Department of La Paz. (references) |
Political Economy | Bolivia | The Banzer Administration (1997-2002) has largely fulfilled its pledge to remove Bolivia from the "coca/cocaine circuit," forcibly eradicating thousands of hectares of coca in the Chapare region and developing plans to deal with the small amounts of remaining illegal coca in the Yungas region near La Paz. (references) |
Travel | Bolivia | Residential current in La Paz is 110 and 220 volts, 50 cycles. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bolivia | A strike by public health workers in April caused hardship for citizens, and teachers in La Paz struck for a week in early May. (references) |
Mexico | There are 11 special labor arbitration and conciliation boards (in Queretaro, Pachuca, Ciudad del Carmen, Zacatecas, Orizaba, Ciudad Juarez, Cancun, Colima, La Paz, Reynosa, and Tijuana) and 4 more state offices of the STPS to make it more convenient for workers to file complaints and bring other actions before the labor court system. (references) | |
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1. La Paz, IN (town, FIPS 42192) 2. La Paz , Bolivia |
Expression using "La Paz": La Paz County. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "la paz"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | alay azpay.(various references) | |
Thai | เมืองทางตะวันตกของโบลิเวีย. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: plaza. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-p-z" | |
-2 letters: aal, ala, alp, lap, pal, zap. | |
-3 letters: aa, al, la, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-p-z" | |
+1 letter: plazas. | |
+2 letters: palazzi, palazzo. | |
+3 letters: palazzos, paralyze. | |
+4 letters: paralyzed, paralyzer, paralyzes, pozzolana. | |
+5 letters: capitalize, palatalize, paralyzers, paralyzing, plagiarize, pozzolanas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 50 61 7A |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 00100000 01010000 01100001 01111010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a   P a z |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0050 0061 007A |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46672506792 |
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