Word: patrimonyâ
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...control over a long transitional period; there is to be no radical, overnight shift of authority. Said Escobar: "Getting control of the Canal Zone and the canal is one of Panama's oldest national desires. To generation after generation of Panamanians, the canal has symbolized the country's national patrimony???in the hands of foreigners. We developed a kind of national religion over the canal." Linowitz told TIME, "In the world as a whole, Panama is regarded as a colonial enclave. The treaty sets off a whole new relationship between the U.S. and Latin America. We can prove...
...sunk $100,000 of his own money. He had 5,000 fellow stockholders. He had borrowed $1,080,000 from his father. But he still needed $300,000 to put his papers on a paying basis?and his father would lend him no more. He tried to pledge his patrimony???a $1,500,000 trust fund?and failed...
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