Word: egger
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Once the lingua franca of the civilized world, Latin today is little more than the fusty muttering of academics, historians and (some) priests. But in Rome a team of linguists led by top Latin scholar Abbot Carlo Egger is working to rectify that unspeakable state of linguistic affairs...
...lexicon turning into Latin some 15,000 phrases that did not exist in the time of Cicero and Caesar. Among the neologisms from the complete opus: ampla rerum venalium domus (supermarket), ignitabulum nicotianum (cigarette lighter), nuntius fulminans (news flash) and mulierum liberatio (women's lib). Beams Abbot Egger, who is also the editor of a Latin newspaper: "This is proof; Latin can be used even today for everything...
Roscoe L. Egger Jr. retired on April 30. Gibbs' nomination was recommended unanimously by the Senate Finance Committee on June...
...Internal Revenue Service has a notorious lack of sympathy for taxpayers who file late returns. But this year it is the tax collectors who are having trouble with tardiness. IRS Commissioner Roscoe Egger acknowledged last week that his agency is taking as long as twelve weeks to send out refunds, two weeks longer than last year. The sluggishness of the IRS, said Egger, is the result of glitches in setting up a new $103 million Sperry Univac 1100/84 computer system. The IRS launched a crash program to install the computers in November to replace its creaky 1960s-era equipment...
...arrives. The IRS, however, hopes to catch up soon. The agency predicts its total interest payout will be $200 million, roughly the same as last year. Some anonymous IRS employees told journalists that the tax backlog had got so bad that agency workers had deliberately shredded thousands of returns. Egger heatedly rejected those stories. Said he: "I'm here to tell you it's sheer nonsense...