Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public health and even people's homes. The Mediterranean fruit fly, which threatened California citrus crops in 1980-82, is thought to have arrived in a tourist's peach. Africanized "killer" bees, sighted for the first time on U.S. soil last year near Bakersfield, Calif., probably hitchhiked there from Latin America aboard a ship laden with oil- drilling equipment. Asian tiger mosquitoes, carriers of dengue, a viral infection that causes chills, headache and muscle pains, were intercepted near Houston last year. They have since migrated to at least six Southeastern states...
...financial independence, Harvard remained a small and inadequate school. Its faculty in 1868 numbered scarcely 20, its student body fewer than 500. Its dormitories had no central heat or running water. Its narrow curriculum of required courses involved largely the recitation of memorized texts, many of them in Latin. "No one took Harvard College seriously," said Henry Adams, '58. "It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile...
...even though Harvard may sometimes aggravate this situation, it can also do much to help, panelists emphasized. Yamil H. Kouri, research coordinator of the Institute for International Development's Latin America and Caribbean Health Program, said that the principle problem in developing countries is not a lack of doctors or medical personnel, but rather a problem of management and efficiency...
Several Harvard professors will give Latin,Greek and Hebrew salutations, and PlummerProfessor of Christian Morals the Rev. Peter J.Gomes will speak on Harvard's Puritan heritage.The chief marshal of the University, Richard M.Hunt, will then introduce the Prince...
...readers cannot stand the shock of an unmodified noun, at least on first reference. Thus we have Libyan-sponsored terrorism, Ping-Pong diplomacy, debt-laden Brazil and the two most popular hyphenated modifiers of the 1980s, "financially-troubled" and "financially-plagued," which can fairly be used to describe most Latin American nations, many banks and the United States Football League. The Syrian-backed P.L.O., an earlier hyphenated champion, had to be retired when the Syrian backers began shooting at the P.L.O. backs. Any dictator who leaves his homeland hastily, with or without his bullion and wife's shoe collection...