Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediately banned overnight camping and the Interior Department pondered new rules for camping out in national parks, while some Montanans demanded the eradication of the park's grizzlies (estimated at 100). Whatever the outcome, last week's twin tragedies were a reminder that the grizzly deserves his Latin name-Ursus horribilis...
Burleson has been a member for the past year of the Harvard Center's project on Latin American health and population problems as they relate to formal education programs...
...consorcio lottery method for financing cars [July 21] may be "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair," but its origins are in the Old World. Although such rotating credit associations are known widely in Asia, Africa, and now in Latin America and the West Indies, the most likely source of the Brazilians' consorcio is the esusu of the Yoruba of Nigeria. Whether it was originally introduced to the New World by Africans, Chinese or East Indians, this popular method of saving is now known as boxi money in Guyana, meeting in Barbados, partners in Jamaica, esu in the Bahamas...
Conjugal visiting is fairly widespread in Latin America. But Hopper thinks that Parchman will probably remain the only prison in the U.S. to permit it. Even the experiment-minded U.S. Bureau of Prisons opposes the idea, contending that far less than half of the nation's 19,500 federal prisoners have viable marriages that conjugal visits could save, and that such a privilege would only antagonize the havenots...
...International Seminar will hold its final open forum of the summer at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Emerson 105. Messrs. Jayasuriya, Latin, Nishi, Oduhton, Shamsuddoulah, and Woo will discuss "Prospects of Democracy in Asia and Africa...