Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparently one of a breed specializing in purposely getting knocked-up by pilots-to-be, hoping for a shot-gun wedding and an escape from their dreary existence. But Mayo's motel bedmate turns out to be different sensitive, self-aware, and genuinely in love with an Italian stud tast becoming an admirable person as well. Winger is not only beautiful, but wonderfully in touch with the uneducated common sense and honesty of the character she plays...
...than those concerning the workings of the Holy See's bank, the Institute per le Opere di Religione (Institute for Religious Works). In a church that is nearly 2,000 years old, the Vatican bank is a relative newcomer. Its main holdings go back to 1929, when the Italian government under Benito Mussolini paid $83 million to the Holy See as compensation for the loss of papal territory seized from the church in 1870 by the Italian republic. Much of that money was eventually invested in real estate and Italian companies like Societa Generate Immobiliare, the giant international construction...
Secrecy breeds suspicion, and the Vatican's investments have caused serious questions over the years. In the mid-1960s, the IOR was discovered to have invested in firearms dubious concerns for a church. Examples: an Italian firearms factory and a Canadian pharmaceutical company that manufactured contraceptives...
These change prompted Pope Paul VI in 1969 to make the first major change in the interest investment policy. He liquidated its controlling interest in many Italian firms and shifted several million dollars in proceeds into...
Budd, an American subsidiary of Thyssen AG, a huge West German steelmaking firm, has lost five other rail-car contracts in the past two years to Canadian, Japanese and Italian competitors. Budd has done business with the MTA for two decades, and is to deliver 316 subway cars in 1984. The company said that as a result of losing the latest contract it will lay off up to 40 engineers and cancel plans to hire 550 workers in New York...