Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predecessors. But, while they hold 112 of 1,201 presidentially assigned posts, none are at the Cabinet level. Hispanics hold only 3.4% of jobs in the federal bureaucracy, while blacks hold 16%, and the Hispanic proportion of federal jobholders has inched up only .7% in the past ten years. The same pattern holds true at state and local levels...
...about 30 transplanted cigar factories. Hispanics are prominent in land development and make up 60% of the construction work force. They control 14 of the 67 local commercial banks. One, the Continental National, has seen its deposits swell from $2 million to $29 million in the past four years. Latinos generate an estimated $1.8 billion in annual income and have created 100,000 jobs. Says Jan Luytjes, a business professor at Florida International University: "We are seeing the rebirth of small entrepreneurship...
...become another Stalin-grad." So said a weary Lebanese Christian, preparing to abandon his beloved city of Beirut-perhaps forever. Once again the sectarian violence that has savaged Lebanon for the past five years had erupted in a round of destruction and death. In an all-out effort to crush right-wing Christian militiamen with whom it has been fighting a months-long war, the 30,000-man Syrian peace-keeping force launched a devastating block-by-block assault on Christian areas of Beirut. By week's end it had left at least 800 dead and thousands more wounded...
...effort to free the trapped patrol, Syrian artillery units let loose the heaviest barrages seen in the city since the Lebanese civil war came to an official end two years ago. "Never in the uninterrupted years of war since 1973 has there been such bitter fighting as in the past week," reported TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis from Beirut. "Throughout the eastern part of the city there is a continuous barrage of exploding shells and rockets. The road crossing through the old 'green line' separating the Christian and Muslim areas of Beirut is impassable...
During the past year, Bulgaria's President Todor Zhivkov has been trying to improve relations with the West. Bulgaria claims that Markov and Simeonov were liquidated by Western intelligence services seeking to besmirch the country's image. To lend credence to that pitch, the regime offered to help British authorities dealing with the case. It was an offer the British just might be able to refuse...