Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...succeeded her husband as President after his death last July, has been unable to reverse two disastrous trends: the terrorist campaign of kidnaping and murder being waged by rival extremist groups of both the left and the right, and the steady collapse of what was once Latin America 's most prosperous economy. Last week TIME Buenos Aires Correspondent Rudolf Rauch sent this report...
...West Africa it is known as dash, in Latin America as la mordida (the bite), in Italy la bustarella (the little envelope). By whatever name, bribery and associated tactics-outright payoffs to clerks and customs inspectors, "contributions" to political parties, the hiring of government officials as "consultants" -have long been accepted in many countries as the normal, natural way to get any business done. U.S. companies operating overseas must somehow adjust to that atmosphere. But the biggest scandal in American business right now is that too many seem to have become a part...
...blandly dismiss the obvious trends toward independent action free of U.S. domination that are now taking place in Latin America. Indeed, you state that Latin America has a "special relationship" with...
...Young Jr. High School will open as a magnet in the fall with-among other things-an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a special center for the performing arts and a separate curriculum for medical studies. Whitney Young also has a strict admissions quota: 40% white, 40% black, 10% Latin, 5% other minorities and 5% at the discretion of the principal. Says Assistant School Superintendent Joseph Hannon: "It's supposed to be a laboratory of the city...
...last week that they had also made gifts, which they insisted were legal, to political parties in Canada and Italy. For Gulf, there was one painful irony. Prior to Dorsey's Senate testimony, the speculation had been that most of the company's contributions had gone to Latin America. Last week the leftist military in Peru nationalized $2 million worth of Gulf service stations, accusing the company of "notorious, immoral conduct"-presumably meaning interference in Peruvian politics-even though there has been no evidence so far that Gulf made any contribution in Peru...