Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy Easter for Argentinians, whose president, Raul Alfonsin, convinced rebel army officers to abort a plan to launch an offensive against the nations's still fragile democracy. For four days, the officers had plotted in a military compound outside the capital. Alfonsin proved that even in blood-soaked Latin America, the power of suasion can exceed the power of arms. The peaceful victory offers others in a war-torn world an eloquent lesson...
Alfonsin's victory, however, will not quiet the unrest that surges through his armed forces. Argentinian democracy is safer this week than last, yet still not safe. Nonetheless, Alfonsin's achievement may be a hopeful sign for Latin America's attempts to nurture democracy...
...American Bible of 1970 was the first Roman Catholic translation of the Old and New Testaments produced in the U.S., and was based entirely upon Hebrew and Greek manuscripts rather than the traditional Latin text. Those features were especially important to scholars. Among many ordinary churchgoers, however, the NAB was noteworthy for a less felicitous reason: its relentless lack of style. As a brochure by the New Testament editor, Father Gerard S. Sloyan of Temple University, bluntly explained, "If this translation has a fault it is not that of obscurity, rather of a clarity which says what the text says...
...people are now saying "The Dodgers, of all teams," the Dodger players are saying "The Chief, of all people." Campanis had a reputation for fairness: he once traded his son to the Athletics. And the Latin players, in particular, have regarded him as a patron. Pedro Guerrero murmured, "Probably, if it wasn't for him, I would've been somewhere else . . . I know he didn't mean to say that." The question is, How many others did he speak...
...week for a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, they had plenty to talk -- and fret -- about. The U.S. and Japan seemed perilously close to a trade war. The value of the American dollar was nose-diving to new lows against the yen. And the Latin- American debt crisis was flaring up all over again. In short, the world economy was showing distinct signs of stress...