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    costa


    1. The tale of a teenage girl who, while on vacation in Costa


    2. the wonders and beauties of Costa Rica and as she, at the


    3. had been to the Costa Brava many times previously and stayed in


    4. The first land sighted was the sandy loam on Cayo Romano, and as the sun set in tropical suddenness, a fire flickered from the summit and was answered by a second flare on the distant heights of Cubitas: a message from the watchful guardia costa to the beleaguered Cuban Government, which has meted isolated justice in spirit rather than in letter, that the day of Cuba's triumph was at hand


    5. US intelligence discovered a plot to assassinate Secretary of State Kissinger in 1976 in Costa Rica, and the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica as well


    6. George had done extremely well as a computer programmer, however, the fast paced, highly competitive Silicon Valley life was not suitable to his gentle nature, so several years earlier, he had come to Costa Rica with his wife and the apple of his eye, his beloved daughter, to start over where the peaceful lifestyle was much more to his liking


    7. To make matters worse, the owner had abandoned some huge debts when he left Costa Rica, and to collect, liens had been registered against the farm


    8. They were all in Costa Rica hiding, she said, behind its laws that limit extradition to only the most serious of crimes and prohibit it if a death penalty awaits


    9. Among the Costa Rican regulars was a federal narcotics officer with hanging jowls and baldhead who, according to her, stole kilos of confiscated cocaine and sold them himself


    10. ” Hair, as far as Sylvia was concerned, was a different matter entirely: no half-savage Costa Rican was going to touch hers

    11. “Puriscal, what a beautiful name! I saw some of Costa Rica’s mountains on the drive up from Limon and the scenery was just marvelous


    12. “I consider Puriscal to be one of Costa Rica’s most picturesque areas


    13. She helped to get the horse cooled down, brushed out and settled in its stall, chatting continually of her friendship with Sylvia: “When she started coming to Costa Rica, it was just for brief vacations, but I opened my home to her and showed her the ropes


    14. “Right – but tell me, you seem to have been down here for a while, why does a geologist stay down here in Costa Rica when the good money is obviously back in The States?” Sylvia was certainly blunt, but she had been so open about herself – it was Beth’s turn


    15. “So, what brings you to Costa Rica?” he queried, shrugging his shoulders at her refusal, then pinched the joint between fingertips studying, first it, then her, before sucking in another drag


    16. She did want to see the rest of Costa Rica, but she missed Truman


    17. “Ya see what I mean?” he questioned when the hooker became unable to continue, “she didn’t do this on her own! When I first got her to tell me this, I figgered that the Tierney broad got Chiquita to help her rob us, and that, of course, meant that the American broad had been sent down here to Costa Rica by someone who knew about the cans – Sal, of course


    18. Yet, as he came to know Costa Rica, the place grew on him till he came to love it and to consider that blowing away that kid back in Boston had been the best thing he’d ever done for himself


    19. But probably the best thing about living in Costa Rica was that the fucking wop was completely out of his life – at least that’s what he’d thought until now with this American bitch showing up knowing that the money would be in the tuna cans


    20. He claimed that he was ‘so happy to have located an old friend in Costa Rica’ because he was retired and living here now

    21. Costa Rica, a defenseless nation without armed forces, had, at that time, been the apprehensive witness to Nicaragua’s civil war unfolding across its northern border


    22. Nevertheless, with it supposedly finished, armored personnel carriers, helicopters and airplanes, offensive weapons that gave them the capacity to overrun Costa Rica in a matter of days, continued to arrive


    23. Costa Rican log barges loaded with cargo harvested on the Pacific Coast routinely passed through the Panama Canal


    24. Log barges were selected for several reasons: they carried no crew who might otherwise stumble across the drug and, bound for Costa Rica, not the US or Europe, they would not arouse undue suspicion in the tightly monitored canal


    25. The distribution of payments to various officials within Costa Rica would be entrusted to him


    26. Truman was directed to rendezvous with a Costa Rican fisherman on the narrow peninsula forming the breakwater for the port of Bluefields


    27. The other was to be returned to the Costa Rican, a young fisherman by the name of Gordon Edward


    28. Sal came up with the idea of the Costa Rica trip to see if perhaps they could hook up with Charlie’s connection


    29. Caroline had often boasted that with the connections she had, the law in Costa Rica was nothing to be feared, so with heart in throat, Sylvia called begging her assistance


    30. Sylvia might have put up a stink but, as she had so often, Caroline came to the rescue whenever Mike encountered another of Costa Rica’s insurmountable bureaucratic obstacles to just about anything

    31. “Sal? You’re still trying to accuse Sal? I’ll have you know that he’s holding up his end, just fine! There aren’t any problems in Boston, but we sure do have a big one here in Costa Rica now that you’ve put those two women on the run!”


    32. Based upon his unblemished military record and experience as an investigator, the Costa Rican National Police (OIJ) offered the job he eventually accepted


    33. As it turned out, his assignment to the division came at a most opportune time: Costa Rica had recently succumbed to US pressure insisting that it expand its efforts against cocaine


    34. As Costa Rica gave way to the political arm-twisting, so did other countries lying in cocaine’s northbound path as the field of players on both sides of the law expanded enormously


    35. Twice, when a Tweety-Bird shipment arrived in Costa Rica, OIJ officers were there, waiting and, with each, Edgar’s stature within the department increased


    36. It became routine and, in increments too small to be noticed, Sylvia’s time in Costa Rica dwindled to but a day or two


    37. Her frequent trips to Boston for the purpose of personally carrying cash to Costa Rica where she could deposit it as La Hacienda profit were creating too regular of a pattern that was bound to attract attention eventually


    38. She left it to Sal to come up with a new and safer method for transporting the cash to Costa Rica, and the other problems, legal and domestic, regarding the mule and his family


    39. She left directly for Costa Rica and the inevitable showdown with Mike


    40. She scurried back to Costa Rica, bought the drug and condoms and sent Alfredo off on his first trip as a seahorse

    41. She stayed in Costa Rica for the entire two weeks they were down, keeping them in line by her presence and seeing to it that they left when they should


    42. As she learned later, when her attorney was allowed access to the report, the Boston PD’s narcotics division had called Costa Rica, informing the OIJ of the arrest of her man at Logan International


    43. Only in Costa Rica did they need to arrive without arousing suspicion, and Sal saw to it that they left Boston clean and straight


    44. She accepted and they married in a civil ceremony in Costa Rica


    45. It began later that month with the arrival in Costa Rica of two of Mike’s friends


    46. A sympathetic court granted her title to all his property within Costa Rica


    47. Mike and each of his two friends promptly received three thousand dollars, and Sylvia’s gratuity was set at five thousand dollars, which Caroline intended to give her personally upon her return to Costa Rica


    48. He said there isn’t enough fuel to make it to Costa Rica and even if there was, he wouldn’t do it without cash in advance


    49. This is Doña Sylvia Henderson speaking from Puriscal, Costa Rica


    50. You have transported horses for me from Costa Rica to Charleston many times, and you have been paid in full and on time for every one of those shipments at a rate that we both know is very good













































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    Synonyms for "costa"

    costa rib

    "costa" definitions

    a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)


    any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)