Word: latinizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II, are now the highest since the 1920s. In Brazil, interest is typically calculated by the month, and rates run as much as 2½%½ monthly for prime borrowers, 5% for medium-sized companies, and 7% for consumers who make installment purchases. In large parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, long-term capital is scarcely available at any price, and great chunks of it are hard to come by in Europe. Last week the deficit-ridden U.S. Government had to pay the highest rates since the Civil War - 6.45% - to float $730 million in bonds...
...private U.S. investment in the developing countries, most of it concentrates in a few that produce marketable minerals-Middle Eastern oil, Latin-American metals. The developing countries are in a squeeze because they depend on the U.S. and other rich nations for 20% of their capital, need hard currencies to buy machines and other capital to build schools, low-cost housing, telephone systems, roads and other all-important "infrastructures" that are slow to show profits. The dilemma: countries often need infrastructure to attract capital, but cannot develop it without large amounts of capital...
What eludes U.S. penology (from the Latin poena, meaning pain) is the basic recipe of effective punishment: speedy, inescapable prosecution, a fair chance for a fresh start, and state-upheld values that offenders can reasonably acknowledge as superior to their own. For one thing, 77% of reported U.S. crimes are never solved; many are never even reported. Thus, most caught criminals see their problem as bad luck rather than bad character. Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent. Dostoevsky astutely depicts a would-be murderer viewing...
...know as many languages as he). Having rendered numerous works into his native Spanish, he is now working with Norman Thomas diGiovanni to prepare English translations of an upcoming volume of Borges' selected poems. The pair is trying to avoid the "maybe inevitable mistake" made by Borges' previous translators: "Latin words are natural in Spanish, but may be unnatural and far-fetched in English." The problem is to find a natural blend of Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words...
...documentary shortly after the completion of Citizen Kane; after Welles had shot thousands of feet of film, RKO withdrew financial support, recalled Welles, and put his uncut footage into the vaults. For years unidentifiable random shots from the film, It's All True, turned up as stock footage in Latin American thrillers, the only Welles color footage thereby becoming scattered and hopelessly lost...