Word: mam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influx began in 1980, when the Guatemalan government of President Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia intensified its campaign to wipe out leftist guerrillas based in the mountains of Huehuetenango and Quiche. In the process, the army indiscriminately killed thousands of Chuj, Kanjobal and Mam Indians, whom they suspected of supporting the insurgents. Many of those who survived sought sanctuary across the border in Mexico. Some 46,000 of them are now in government-created refugee camps. But, according to Roman Catholic Church authorities, an additional 50,000 Guatemalans are roaming the south Mexican countryside in search of work or hiding...
...work in a celebratory space, full of light and air. The view through the glass as one mounts and descends can only sharpen the pleasurable contrast between nature and culture that was the point of Philip Johnson's original garden design. The escalator bank is Pelli's mam flourish. The galleries themselves are neutral, not Architecture with...
...Cabinet and awarding committee posts will be more difficult and time consuming as each L.D.P. faction makes its deal with him in return for its support. Nakasone must then cope with the opposition. The Socialist Party, under its energetic new leader, Masashi Ishibashi, 59, strengthened its position as the mam opposition party by picking up eleven seats, for a total of 112. In its best showing ever, the Komeito (Clean Government) Party won 58 seats, up from 31. The Democratic Socialists elected 38 deputies, a gain of six, while the New Liberal Club, an L.D.P. offshoot, lost...
...mam spark for the Pacific surge is the strong recovery of the U.S. economy, which has been expanding at an 8.8% rate over the past six months and generating many new jobs. The Government announced last week that U.S. unemployment dropped from 9.3% to 8.8% in October. With Americans spending freely again, South Korea's exports to the U.S. are up 34% this year, while Taiwan's have increased 20%. But demand in Western Europe and Japan remains weak. Warned Lawrence Krause, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.: "The world needs growth in Europe...
...transcript, but little else. What graduates of the nonsensical "No Nonesense" approach to learning do once the land their coveted jobs remains unclear. But with EMPLOYERS, SALARIES and CHANCES FOR PROMOTION, the relentless pursuit of SUCCESS would seem likely to continue. It is in this renewed but more mam-month crusade that the notorious Princeton non-graduate insists she should be free of the label "plagiarist." Crafts and Hauther presumably composed this book on their own, but their achievement seems even more reprehensible than that of Napolitano...