Word: iberia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RITA B. VIATOR New Iberia...
Today, from Iberia to Scandinavia, a group of aggressive, dynamic businessmen are doing just that. Multinational in their attitudes, multilingual and young-at least by Continental standards-they are quietly changing the style and stepping up the pace of European business. In executive offices where well-bred formality and old school ties were once the rule, there is now less hierarchical authoritarianism and more promotion based on merit alone. Family connections may still be important, but class lines are melting. Indeed, many a European is beginning to act more like the European conception of a hard-driving American executive than...
Bleak Future. Although man began to mine silver on a small scale in about 2500 B.C., Patterson says that it was not until Rome took control of the silver mines in Iberia that it was able to attain the economic strength necessary for the rapid expansion of the empire. Silver production, mainly in Iberia, peaked between 50 B.C. and A.D. 100, when some 30,000 tons were extracted; Roman legions were furnishing 30,000 fresh slaves a year then to maintain the ranks of miners at 150,000. By the 3rd century A.D., as production steadily decreased, Roman coins...
...armored anteaters are edible, and their shells can be used to make novelty items like bowls and baskets. Now it seems that these primeval-looking animals may get a role in man's efforts to cure an ancient disease. Researchers at the Gulf South Research Institute in New Iberia, La., and at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in nearby Carville believe that armadillos may be ideal test animals for leprosy research...
...part of the prefight coverage in Madrid's daily Pueblo, and the dramatic, portentous tone was by no means inappropriate. All Spain was indeed locked into the recent match between West Germany's Peter Weiland and the new idol of Iberia, José Manuel Ibar Urtain, 26, a heavy-thewed, bull-necked Basque whose professional record showed 27 fights and 27 knockouts...