Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history were impaired greatly. In English I had a really hard time. I met with my teacher twice a week and worked on every paper I turned in. I floundered in some areas." Sample dropped Spanish A and stubbornly refused to take his father's advice to study Latin, which he had studied in high school. Some top-notch medical school will find that he may not remember Latin terms, but that he has a remarkable knack for neurons...
...impact on European GNP soon led many economic planners to try similar schemes in the Third World. But bad politics and bad planning have crippled American attempts to replicate its European strategies elsewhere. Anti-communism has too often dominated aid choices in Africa and Asia, while commercial lending to Latin America has never allowed its regional economies the breathing space which the Marshall Plan created for Europe...
...more tepid endorsement. Said he: "I venture that all in all it will be seen as a positive step." Baker, who presumably had concerns that Citicorp's actions might discourage other banks from participating in his Third World initiative, nonetheless expressed hope that the bank will continue lending in Latin America, where it has $14.8 billion in loans outstanding. Citicorp is particularly exposed in Brazil ($4.6 billion), Mexico ($2.9 billion), Argentina ($1.5 billion) and Venezuela ($1 billion...
Citicorp's decision could also bring an eventual clampdown on additional lending to Latin America and other developing regions. Certainly the Reagan Administration has reason to be concerned at that eventuality. The Administration's Baker Initiative calls for $20 billion in private loans to be issued to the Third World over the next three years in order to foster growth. The program has been slow to get rolling. Said one Manhattan economic consultant: "Some bankers believe Reed has killed the Baker Initiative...
Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies Carol O. Herron, who came to Harvard this year to augment the department's literature offerings, this spring taught a course on Afro-American poetry. Herron, who previously studied Latin American epic fiction on a Fulbright Award in Mexico, is an expert on Milton and the epic. "My work involves showing the way in which the Afro-American epic has developed in America with African, American and European sources," she says...