Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been adopted. In childbirth, women faced tremendous constraints that did indeed make them a weaker vessel. A high infant mortality rate resulted from the lack of disinfectant, the limited use of forceps and mishandling by midwives. The midwives lacked medical knowledge because they were not taught Latin, and only a few English-language medical textbooks existed. Many women died in childbirth, and those who survived faced the death of at least one third of their offspring...
...pretense-why the evident pleasure-in seeing the country as a collection of loners? It may just be a game, a casually preferred national image requiring no analysis, like English gentlemen or Latin lovers. It may be a holdover from the country's beginnings. Any institution that starts out with a Declaration of Independence may feel obliged to uphold the standard. The myth may also arise from a logical contradiction in a revolutionary society; that once the revolution is done, every rugged individual must be whittled down to a mere citizen for the revolutionized society to function. Thinking...
...Harvard miffed at being called young by an upstart high school? No, says University spokesman David Rosen--"that's a high school and wouldn't really be in the picture" of the competition for the title of "oldest institution of higher learning." Rosen adds that Boston Latin School is probably older than Harvard anyway...
...politicians in both Washington and Buenos Aires holding their breath whenever interest payments came due. For months Argentine Economy Minister Bernardo Grinspun has been shuttling between New York City, Washington and Buenos Aires. Default was avoided twice this year by partial payments or assistance from Argentina's Latin American neighbors. Meanwhile, the country's economy kept deteriorating. Inflation reached an annual rate of 1,200%, and labor unions were pressing for ever higher wages...
While the debt bomb has still to be defused, its tick is much softer than before. "The international financial system has the capacity to handle the Latin American debt crisis," said Economist Arnaldo Musich, an unofficial adviser to Argentine President Raul Alfonsin. Robert Solomon, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, agreed: "The countries can grow out of it. The world can grow...