Word: portese
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Since President Reagan underwent cancer surgery, thousands of older Americans have called their doctors for colorectal screening examinations. During the first week after his condition was announced, the American Cancer Society's Washington telephone hotline, which normally handles two or three requests a week, fielded 1,500 inquiries. The callers...
Underlying the disputes is a growing divergence of the interests of the two groups, reinforced by mutual suspicion. Black and Hispanic leaders, says Alejandro Portes, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, "see everything as a zero-sum game. If blacks get something, Latinos lose something, and vice versa." Many African...
The situation is so critical that the Soviets could bring Warsaw to its knees by refusing to increase their aid. Says Richard Portes, professor of economics at the University of London: "They simply need to continue the present levels of deliveries, do nothing out of the ordinary, and let the...
As bleak as Poland's economic plight may seem, experts are not unanimous in writing the country off as incurable. Says the University of London's Portes: "Poland has the industrial capacity and the skilled labor force to come back quickly.
Such governmental arrangements do little to ease Warsaw's obligations toward commercial banks, which hold some two-thirds of its foreign debt. This, says British Economist Richard Portes, is a "far more critical and sensitive issue" because the commercial loans are not secured by any government guarantees. Seeking to...