Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caribbean countries, however, showed little enthusiasm for an international force. Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga rejected the idea out of hand. When the heads of eight major Latin American nations met in Acapulco last month, they called on all countries to "respect the principles of nonintervention and self-determination" in the Americas. While Latin and Caribbean nations may agree with the Reagan Administration on little else, they clearly do not want U.S. troops in Haiti a second time this century...
...brings to show business, customarily a craft of schmaltz and charm, one of the keenest analytic minds around. Sondheim was the kind of boy whose favorite school subject is Latin, and he grew into the sort of man who browses through dictionaries for entertainment. His love of concocting puzzles, scavenger hunts and murder-mystery games, legendary in theater circles, inspired the premise and central character of Anthony Shaffer's thriller, Sleuth, and led Sondheim and a longtime friend, Actor Anthony Perkins, to turn out their own Hollywood chiller, The Last of Sheila. Equally methodical for the stage, Sondheim does...
American Cablesystems of Cambridge will donate video equipment to the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School because the two groups are concerned about the increase in illiteracy and decline of reading ability among students...
Even when T.M.U. teaches a "dead and completely useless language," as it does in Roman Studies 25, it does so in a way that will assist the modern student. Thus, the matriculator at T.M.U. learns how to say travellers checks in Latin and ask, "Ubi est Americanus Expressus...
...brighten this year. The country's stock market became the world's fastest- rising exchange, as share prices climbed more than 649% during the first nine months of 1987. The government's foreign currency reserves swelled by 150% to a comfortable $17 billion, the highest level of any Latin American debtor country, and a surge of exports helped the Mexicans rack up a $6.6 billion trade surplus...