Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, the U.S. has "opposed with tremendous ferocity any improvements in human rights, raise of living standards and democritization in Latin America. The very essence of American policy has been to increase massacre and repression...
...example, the committee will consider eliminating a guidance conselor in the pilot school a; Can. bridge Rindge and Latin High School, a program designed to bring 200 students into close contact with 10 teachers and advisers...
Journalese, the native tongue of newsgatherers and pundits, retains a faint similarity to English but is actually closer to Latin. Like Latin, it is primarily a written language, prized for its incantatory powers, and is best learned early, while the mind is still supple. Every cub reporter, for instance, knows that fires rage out of control, minor mischief is perpetrated by Vandals (never Visigoths, Franks or a single Vandal working alone) and key labor accords are hammered out by weary negotiators in marathon, round-the- clock bargaining sessions, thus narrowly averting threatened walkouts. The discipline required for a winter storm...
...last week that will make it more difficult for the Administration to win over Congress. Americas Watch, a private nonpartisan group that monitors human-rights abuses in the hemisphere, contended that the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group, employs "the deliberate use of terror." The Washington Office on Latin America, a coalition of religious and academic groups, issued a report citing at least 28 murders, rapes, assaults and instances of torture committed by the contras...
SIMULATION TRAINING. Educational software was once limited to electronic flash cards suitable for drilling students in math, spelling or Latin verbs. Now software writers are using the computer's capacity for simulating real-life situations to teach such subjects as anatomy and aviation. The method has proved particularly successful in the world of high finance. In Scarborough's Run for the Money ($80), PC users learn about business by competing in the market for synthetic bananas. In Harvard Associates' MacManager ($50), players run their own widget making companies. In Scarborough's Make Millions ($50), the simulation includes an office with...