Word: colonizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panama's economy is weighted toward service industries, and there lies the biggest growth potential. Some businessmen think the government should expand the single-track Panama Railroad to handle more traffic in the containers borne by ships too large to navigate the canal. The free-trade zone in Colon already contributes 7½ % of the gross domestic product; the zone could spread onto American-occupied land near by that would be ceded to Panama under the treaties. Panamanians are even now enlarging the country's international financial center, an outpost of 81 banks from all over that...
What fencers do not know or, at least, ignore, is that director's maintain that premature assumptions cost rather than gain duelers points. Directors depend on their ability to re-create what has happened as an image in their brain. And, as local directors Gabor Demjen and Israel Colon explain, when their attention is distracted by a fencer or someone on the sideline, their re-creation can be confused and they are forced to rule no touch...
Directors themselves are quick to assert that these tactics vary from useless to worse than useless. Colon explains that if he is asked quietly to explain his call he is glad to. But an angry request (or should it be demand) for explanation only makes him tense. And though he naturally tries to remain objective, he says "I know I'm annoyed...
There is one kind of psychological manipulation that Colon does admit may have some affect. He acknowledges that he is affected when coaches or fencers who never complain or voice their dissatisfaction with a call do, for once, raise an eyebrow. It is impossible, Colon says, to dismiss their judgement as easily as that of those who from the frequency of their complaints, you know are biased...
Firefall tonight at the Orpheum; Punkpin decorating contest at the Franklin Park Zoo tomorrow night; Chicago, unlike Bertha, is coming around here anymore on November 8; semi-colon; Charlie Daniels at the Orf on the Fifth; Joan Armatrading (tremendous voice), The Ramones (cute mugs, Rockwell likes 'em) and The Talking Heads (former Modern Lovers included, for those who remember, those who care) are all up-and-coming; Firefall cancelled [drat]; Styx the 4th at the Orf; at the Paradise: Southside Johnny like right now or something, Chris Hillman, Sea Level and Mink De Ville coming up, not to mention Charles...