Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes, especially regarding one of her primary goals building new schools. "Schools need the proper space to teach in," she said. "Children need clean space to learn in and we needed new schools; all the school building is done from city hall. When my daughter graduated Cambridge High and Latin. I decided to run for City Council...
...Thomas Browne, various Bibles and historical chronicles, lie open on high oaken tables or under glass. Their pages emanate the same subtle dust observable on the wings of a moth beneath a lamp. In the Founder's Library at New College stand row upon row of thick Latin treatises bound in ivory. And as I look through the notices in TLS of Sotheby's auctions, I discover that some of these volumes are still obtainable, at a price...
...successor, Robert L. Vesco, and a group of Vesco's associates of "looting" no less than $224 million from four IOS funds so far this year. The SEC brought a civil action to stop the alleged plundering from the funds' hundreds of thousands of shareholders, mostly Europeans, Latin Americans and U.S. citizens living abroad...
...movie director's dream. Besides Vesco, who denies all charges, the 42 individual and corporate defendants include James Roosevelt-oldest son of the President who created the SEC-three lawyers from Wendell Willkie's old Wall Street firm and a gaggle of shadowy American, European and Latin financiers. Involved on the fringes of the case, though not named in the complaint, are Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres, Spanish Prince Gonzalo Borbón y Dampierre, and Donald A. Nixon, 26-year-old nephew of the President...
Whether Vesco is out even yet is unclear. Kilmorey on Oct. 30 sold control of IOS to a group of Spanish and Latin American businessmen headed by Prince Gonzalo Borbón y Dampierre and including Rafael Díaz-Balart, a former brother-in-law of Cuba's Fidel Castro, but the group now is reportedly trying to back out of the deal. In any case, the group has ties to Vesco; one of its members is Alberto Alvarez, the head of the Costa Rican company that got $60 million from Fund of Funds...