Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late July and early August, Havana will be host to 16,000 Communist and left-wing students from around the world (including 400 Americans) at a World Youth Festival dedicated to the theme of "anti-imperialist solidarity." Brigades of volunteers from the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, as Cuba's auxiliary political watchdog apparatus is called, are working six days a week to spruce up the capital for what promises to be a giant pep rally on behalf of national liberation movements-and, by implication, on behalf of Cuba's own policy of armed intervention...
...teacher can teach in a moral vacuum. It doesn't matter how high you score on the test or how many degrees you have or how much tenure you have if you come to school as late as you can, leave as early as you can, make as much as you can, and then sit on your...
...much battered package of tax cuts and reforms has brought the White House nothing but headaches since it was introduced six months ago, and last week the problems multiplied still more. The trouble now is the Steiger amendment to reduce taxes on capital gains. Because of his loud but late opposition to it, the President has suddenly found himself facing a potentially explosive confrontation with Congress...
...couple in their late 50s earning $15,000 a year rent an apartment and sell their 20-year-old home, realizing a capital gain of $34,000. Now, they would pay a tax of $7,709 on their total income. That would drop to $6,659 under Steiger's plan, a saving...
...urban guerrilla follows a political goal and attacks only the government, the big capitalists and the foreign imperialists, particularly North Americans." Since the mid-1960s, when the late Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella made that declaration in a manual that has since become a text for terrorists everywhere, businessmen have found themselves the targets of violence in many parts of the world, notably Latin America and some relatively prospering democracies of Western Europe. The bombings, kidnapings and assassinations have not spread-at least so far-to the U.S., but American firms are increasingly troubled by the phenomenon...