Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observers judge that if Andreotti cannot put the economic plan across, then no Italian politician can. Though he is one of the West's lesser known political leaders, he is one of its most effective. Now 59, he entered politics in 1944 as a political apprentice to the late Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi, the most respected of Italian leaders. Observes an admirer: "He was De Gasperi's tape recorder. He remembered everything and erased nothing." Andreotti has vast experience in government; he has held virtually every portfolio, including three previous turns as Prime Minister...
Those mournful lyrics from the Rolling Stones' rock classic Gimme Shelter touched a generation of troubled youngsters in the late 1960s. Today the lines might serve as a lament for affluent investors who are watching some of their tax shelters being blown away. The winds of change are coming from the Internal Revenue Service and Congress, which greatly restricted tax avoidance schemes in the Tax Reform Act of 1976, and continued the attack in the latest law, which becomes fully effective...
Bolstered by profits from newly developed North Sea oil ventures, the Thomson Organization is clearly capable of withstanding a protracted closure. Although he takes pains to deny it, Company Chairman Kenneth Lord Thomson of Fleet, 55, is said to be less sentimentally attached to the papers than was his late father, Roy, the first Lord Thomson, who considered the acquisitions of the Times (est. 1785) and the Sunday Times (est. 1822) to be the pinnacle of his career...
...upheld the right of parents "to preserve home education" under that state's laws. But many parents of stay-at-homes find themselves enmeshed in legal controversies with local truant officers. Laws on school attendance vary widely from state to state; some permit children to enroll in school as late as age eight (Arizona) and to leave as early as age 14 (Massachusetts). In addition, some parents are asked to prove they are qualified?in some cases, professionally certifiable as teachers?before a local judge or school board...
...formative years of modern art. Nearly all who created the modernist vocabulary between 1900 and 1930 are dead. Four remain: Marc Chagall, 91; Joan Mird, 85; Sonia Delaunay, 93; and Salvador Dali, 74. None have produced much work of consequence in recent years; posterity will not have time for late Chagall or post-1939 Dali. Nevertheless, De Chirico's career was so uneven as to have been unique. His impact on art would probably have been the same if he had died in 1920 instead of 1978. He was the epitome of the artist as burnt-out case...