Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vocally critical of each other and do not like to be lumped together with some of the abrasive men and controversial companies involved in modern mergers. They prefer to be known as leaders of "multi-industry" or "multimarket" concerns. Yet "conglomerate" seems an apt title. Derived from the Latin verb, conglomerare, meaning "to roll together," it is also the geological term for heterogeneous stone fragments fused into a mass. However much the word grates, it has become fused into the business language...
...could walk. It is said that once, when the talented toddler fell and cut his forehead, he inspected the blood with detachment and asked: "Is it oxyhemoglobin or carboxyhemoglobin?" At Eton, Haldane was regularly beaten by senior boys. But by the time he left school, he could read Latin and Greek, French and German, and, as he observed with matter-of-fact pride, "I knew enough chemistry to take part in research, enough biology to do unaided research, and I had a fair knowledge of history and contemporary politics." Thus equipped, he went to New College, Oxford, started in mathematics...
...American States with "economic aggression" (the countercharge, quite properly, will be that the U.S. is willing to accept expropriation if need be but insists that Peru observe international law and make repayment). Yet, in a showdown, most would probably side with Peru because of the sad state of U.S.-Latin American relations, in spite of huge U.S. private investment. Once, other nations in the hemisphere could command U.S. attention by pointing to the threat of Castro subversion. Now, however, Cuban infiltration has failed1 and Castro has been muffled by the Russians as the Soviets seek peaceful expansion and influence...
...Russian presence. The Soviets within the past two years have opened embassies in Colombia and Chile as well as Peru, and are now recognized by six South American nations. Even where there is no formal relationship, Moscow has been busy pushing rubles and culture. Total Russian trade with Latin America is growing and now amounts to $260 million, compared with $157 million in 1965. Moreover, in pursuit of diplomatic gains, the Russians graciously let the South...
Arms Are Different. Some experts doubt that this idyllic barter will last very long. Says Professor Ernst Halperin, a Latin America expert currently lecturing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "The Russians are not much interested in delivering economic assistance to countries they cannot control. But arms are a completely different question. They are the Russians' main instrument of expansion into an area, as they showed in Guatemala in 1954 and a year later in Egypt...