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Word: latinizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without words with Latin roots, Baker would lose most of his professional tools and, indeed, a large part of his cultural and intellectual heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...geopolitics that involve European Communism and Christianity, East and West, church and state, might never again be quite the same. John Paul had a mission on his mind, just as he did in visiting Mexico. There the Pope laid out a clear but complex policy for social action in Latin America and, by extension, for his worldwide church of 700 million. In Poland, the contest between Christ and Marx is far more explicit than in Latin America. Every papal gesture, every deft historical reference had political connotations in this setting. The week saw the first great public outpouring of religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Triumphal Return | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...further at the conference. Recent oil price increases will swell the collective current-accounts deficit of the non-OPEC LDCs this year by $5 billion, to a total $57 billion, and additional raises will grossly enlarge the gap. The Costa Rican delegation mustered some support from other oil-deficient Latin American countries for its proposal that OPEC consult with the importing LDCS before it raises prices again. But African and Asian delegations squelched the resolution partly out of fear that the OPEC nations might reduce their aid to any country daring to challenge them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Less Developed, More Divided | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Since UNCTAD last met in Kenya three years ago, several Latin American governments as well as Sri Lanka, India and others have moved toward more reliance on free market economics. A resolution calling for the industrialized nations to cancel or suspend debts of the LDCs was quietly suppressed by some of the capitalistic advanced-developing countries. Although the U.S. had already written off $500 million in debts owed by 15 of the poorest nations, ADCs like South Korea, Singapore and Brazil have feared that any further write-off would make them appear to be poor credit risks and that international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Less Developed, More Divided | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...chase scenes and mishaps that catapult the heroes from suburban New Jersey to Manhattan's treacherous West 30s and finally to a banana republic so corrupt that its main drag is called United Fruit Boulevard. There are encounters with the daredevil Chinese pilots of Wong Airlines, a mad Latin dictator (Richard Libertini) and a full symphony orchestra conducted by Carmen Dragon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bananas | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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