Word: hybridize
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...Tito seems once again to be responding to economic necessity-and a genuine conviction that Yugoslavia's reforms went too far. Partly because of mismanagement and corruption, Yugoslavia's hybrid market socialism has faltered. In 1971, as inflation spiraled upward at 15% despite two devaluations of the dinar, Yugoslav firms sank into the red, unable to meet payrolls, fill orders or attract vitally needed capital from the West. The result was that although Yugoslavia continued to depend on the West for considerable aid and the bulk of its trade, Belgrade had no choice but to rely more...
...will take part in the greatly publicized linkup with a Soviet Soyuz, an operation that will serve as a gesture of amity between the two great space rivals and also help develop space-rescue techniques. Finally, in the late 1970s NASA hopes to fly its vaunted space shuttle-a hybrid of spaceship and rocket plane that could ferry men and supplies to orbital launch pads for journeys far beyond the moon...
...ships and packed off to the New World. Communication between people who spoke diverse African languages was impossible until the growth of a common language based on the one language to which all the slaves that were shipped to North America were exposed--English. Black English is therefore a hybrid of African and English vocabulary and grammar...
...England re-releases of Mary Welle's "My Guy released in 1964 and Little Eva's Locomotion from roughly the same era each occupied places on the top ten. The Monday Blues's "knights in White Satin" was number one in Boston My favourite AM hat was a hybrid of The Breathless early period and vintage Free called "Go All the Way" sung by a group from Cleveland called Raspherries Meanwhile three powerful progressive artists Van Morrison Rod Stewart and the Band had each released new albums...
...commissions, the SEC settled for a slightly altered version of the present hybrid system. Brokers must now bargain on commissions with customers who make trades worth more than $300,000, a slight cut from the previous minimum of $500,000. The SEC plans to reduce the cutoff point gradually to $100,000 by April 1974. Congressman Moss, on the other hand, wants to abolish fixed commissions entirely and have fees bargained between broker and investor on every trade...