Espiritu says there was a more than 4000% increase for the term, and searches for salmonella spiked as well.

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One of his most valuable cabinet members, Edgardo Espiritu, has ditched him.

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The first episode was hosted by Google spokesperson Anne Espiritu.

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Mr Espiritu had a deft touch in the bond markets: last year, the country's nimble fund-raising efforts allowed it to make good its budget shortfall at impressively low interest rates.

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Anne Espiritu, a Yahoo spokeswoman, said in a statement that Ms. Mayer is "carrying out a careful review of the company's business" and is looking at "potential strategy changes to Yahoo's current plans" along with fellow Yahoo directors.

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It worried that policy-making was stuck as former finance secretary Espiritu (who wanted easy money and strong public spending to boost growth) skirmished with central bank chief Rafael Buenaventura (who wanted to curb the budget deficit and keep the peso steady).

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Most visitors venture out with operators like Baja Paradise to see the whale sharks who live in the Sea of Cortez year round, or travel to the pink cliffs on the nearby island of Espiritu Santo, home to a colony of sea lions.

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Estrada replaced Espiritu as finance secretary with the well-regarded Jose Pardo, who had held the trade and industry portfolio, named a six-man Economic Coordinating Council of top officials to bring badly-needed coherence and momentum to policy-making, and recruited five business elder statesmen as senior advisers.

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He's involved in every aspect of the business from discovering a new supplier of biodynamic Brazilian beans on a trip last fall to Espiritu Santo to the roasting to the choice of paint colors for the company's newest cafe (his current favorite is a grayish white called Benjamin Moore Dove Wing 960).

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