Word: namely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among Ramírez's books are a novel about a dictatorship in Central America called Do I Make You Afraid of Blood? and a biography of Augusto César Sandino. But Ramírez did not join the guerrillas who take their name from that Nicaraguan nationalist, who was slain in 1934 on the orders of the founder of the Somoza dynasty. Instead, with several priests, academics and businessmen, he founded the Group of Twelve, which sought to link the Sandinistas with less radical elements in the opposition to Tacho's government. Last year...
...what excites him most is something much simpler. In Brazil and Mexico, Coca-Cola is selling soft drinks that contain up to one-third of an adult's entire daily vitamin and mineral requirements and 10% of the protein needs. The Mexican drink has a long-haired brand name, Samson, and orange or mango flavors, though Coke can give it any color and taste the customer wants, even split pea. It is made from the whey that is left over from cheese manufacturing; using this protein-potent residue has a double benefit because most whey now is dumped into...
...petitioning the Food and Drug Administration for approval of a new pain reliever. The compound, to be packaged in red, white and blue capsules, will be sold with a label that is indisputably true: PROVED EFFECTIVE IN ONE-THIRD OF ALL CASES AND ABSOLUTELY SAFE. The nostrum's name: Placebo...
...grind with Harvard. She's not wailing about the decay of the institutions of College Life, like Lansing Lamont in Campus Shock. Her stories read more smoothly than The Mem Hall Murders. In the end Harvard fares pretty well, because she uses it only for background: dropping names of buildings and alumni, reminiscing about sneaking a feel in an Eliot House room or necking on the steps of Briggs Hall. The Harvard name may sell a lot of books, but it won't save the story...
...board games! Out of the Great Depression came the great Monopoly. From the Great American Tax Revolt generated by California's Howard Jarvis, 76, and Proposition 13 has come Ax Your Tax. Players try to solve complicated tax problems like how to launder the interest paid on fictitious-name bank accounts. Jarvis, who dutifully posed with an ax and some funny money to promote the game, announced that the endorsement fee had gone to his American Tax Reduction Movement...