Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CTIP three years ago-for $1.5 million in stock and cash-the Italian firm was in shaky condition as a result of an unprofitable project in Egypt. Since then CTIP's net worth has risen 450%, to $5,000,000. It has won important new business in Latin America, Spain and Scandinavia, and added Gulf and British Petroleum as major clients...
...real story is the extent to which Americans of Latin descent are in the mainstream of Western life. Come out and see for yourself...
South Korea: 55,000 Thailand: 47,000 Okinawa: 45,000 Eastern Pacific (afloat): 43,000 Japan: 40,000 Philippines: 30,000 Mediterranean (afloat and ashore): 28,000 Britain: 22,000 Atlantic (afloat): 20,000 Latin America (including Guantanamo Bay and Panama Canal Zone): 16,000 Canada, Greenland and Iceland: 10,000 Spain: 10,000 Turkey: 10,000 Middle East and Africa; 10,000 Taiwan...
...word farce comes from a Latin verb meaning "to stuff." Too often film farces are crammed with top-of-the-lungs comedians and bottom-of-the-gag-file comedy. The Devil by the Tail fills its hour and a half with sly performances and wry wit. It is the stuff of life-and of laughter...
...concept of "additionality," part of tied-aid regulations, was abandoned. Last week the U.S. lifted its ban on credit arms sales to Peru and Ecuador, imposed because of their seizures of U.S. fishing boats, and thus opened the way for a conference to discuss the offshore-waters dispute. From Latin America came a constructive suggestion of what Latins themselves might do to help. Colombia's Lleras Restrepo, back from a visit to the U.S., called for a conference of North American and Latin American labor unions to discuss "a better international division of labor...