Word: ez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to own."). His preaching aside, people in these times still clamor to own just about everything they can possibly imagine. Cars, homes, Cuisinarts, video-cassette recorders--and if you can't afford it, then you simply buy it on credit, borrow money, get a loan, try our EZ Payment plan, Master Charge it, put it on the tab, Leo--anything. It seems the inevitable extension of the consumer age. The old Puritan Ethic might have built this place, but it's the old play-now, pay-whenever attitude that keeps everything running. It's all very pleasant. New cars...
...will direct the country's battered economy: Harvard-educated Economist Manuel José Cabral, 41, as Finance Minister; Eduardo Fernández Pichardo, 41, former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo, as head of the Central Bank; and Ramón Báez Romano, 49, a onetime Gulf & Western executive, as Industry and Commerce Secretary. Those appointments indicated that Guzmán is determined to improve his nation's economy. He was intent on improving the military as well. After the inauguration, the new President kept Vance and Young waiting while he purged...
...peoples of Africa. The key to the study of one of the oldest and most splendid civilizations of the world is the study of the Egyptian language and writing. The key to the study of one of the oldest and most intriguing Christian civilizations is the study of Ge'ez (Ethiopic), one of the first ten languages of the world into which the Bible was translated and, besides Coptic, the oldest literary language of Africa; not only is Ge'ez the key to an extensive body of literature significant for the historian of Eastern Africa and traditional African religions...
...handle several related languages can be recruited to develop a coherent curriculum along these lines: a professor of Egyptian languages and literature who takes an interest in the problem of the stu-of Meroitic and who possesses some knowledge of Berber or a Cushitic language; a specialist in Ge'ez who can also handle some of the Cushitic or Semitic languages of the Horn; a specialist in Swahili who can handle some other important eastern-central languages of Africa (e.g. Kikuyu); a specialist in Hausa who can handle some of the important languages of western Africa; and a specialist...
...teaching more than 50% of all the students enrolled in Afro-American Studies courses is a witness that we need him. The rapport that he has with students throughout the University also make him a very valuable member of this academic community. Most importantly, as specialist in Ge'ez (one of the most important classical and literary language of Africa), Ge'ez literature, and Ethiopian religious history with additional extensive knowledge of many other ancient languages and literatures, particularly ancient Egyptian and Arabic, as well as the history of the ancient Nile civilizations, Isaac is irreplaceable. Prejudice and ignorance...