Word: tionalization
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...middle-aged English secretary and a young college graduate. At first, most investors continued to do well, and some have volunteered to testify on her behalf. But later others failed to receive their anticipated returns. Last year Adela began offering shares in a Panamanian company called Dinars Interna tional Inc. Variations of her name began to appear on her letters-Adela LaFora. Maria LaFora, Maria Holzer, Adela Sanchez Duchin...
...problem restated by this book is more than a joke and less than a na tional crisis. To their credit, the authors usually hover somewhere between these extremes. They admit that social attitudes cannot be changed overnight simply by inventing words. But even such terms as "Ms" and "chairperson" they insist, really do help meet needs created by the growing independence and authority of women. Many people (not all of them men) would rather scrape their fingernails across a blackboard than hear such ugly and artificial neologisms especially when they are propounded on the unproved assumption that it will...
...COLC probably will not issue final regulations for two or three weeks, but it seems unsympathetic to the executive gripes. It has pointed to some of the big raises at the top, and suggested that when management and labor sit down to negotiate, tempers- and the na tional economy - might be soothed if both had to play by the same rules...
...Estaing offered a plan to penalize nations that run consistent surpluses in their balance of payments and prod them to restore an equilibrium that would benefit deficit countries like the U.S. American officials, who are ac customed to finding themselves at log gerheads with the French in interna tional financial conferences, promptly approved the idea. In an interview with TIME Correspondents Henry Muller and George Taber, Giscard remarked...
...Cambodia, which diverted North Vietnamese troops and thus gave South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu a chance to consolidate his military and political position. Instead of keeping Cambodia nonCommunist, the American incursion helped catalyze the minuscule pro-Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas into a movement of na tional scope. It pushed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a dedicated neutralist who was overthrown as Cambodia's ruler in spring 1970, reluctantly into the hands of Hanoi and Peking...