Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liotta: Yeah. I'm reading something now about this tango dancer in Argentina. That's kind of different. So hopefully, that will work out. It's by the people who did Kiss of the Spider Woman, so it's with a good group of people. To me, the most important thing is the story. If it's a nice part and a good story, [the part] doesn't have to be that large. It doesn't have to be the lead. What I'm saying is that there aren't a lot of good writers out there...
...case of Habsburg Spain, Kennedy's own telling of the story makes it clear that what doomed Philip II and his successors was not economic decline but the failure to organize the empire properly. Similarly, Argentina, Brazil, India and China today possess enormous resources, but none are great powers. Kennedy fails to examine the factors that weld a people together, a prerequisite to great power status: nationalism, idealism, education, and a stable political system...
...rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash. Carrefour launched dozens of outlets, as did copycats. Today France has more than 600 hypermarkets that together account for some 14% of the < country's retail trade. Carrefour, which now operates hypermarkets in Spain, Brazil and Argentina, plans to open its first U.S. outlet this week, in suburban Philadelphia. Among the store's innovations: a rubbery floor surface to ease the punishment on shoppers' feet...
Practically alone among present-day theater composers, Lloyd Webber repeatedly hits the Top Ten with his songs: I Don't Know How to Love Him from Superstar; Don't Cry for Me, Argentina from Evita; Memory, the instant standard from Cats. Four songs from Phantom have made the British charts. But despite his unique crossover appeal, his scores are far from cheap tunesmithery. In addition to their obvious debt to rock, Superstar, Evita and Cats also bristle with some hair-raising atonal passages, while Phantom's glorious credo, The Music of the Night, contains one of Lloyd Webber's most...
...serve as collateral for the new Mexican paper. While the proposal may be a breakthrough in the debt standoff, the $10 billion in loan relief would still leave Mexico with a daunting load. Moreover, the scheme may not be readily adaptable for such other debtor nations as Brazil and Argentina, which cannot match Mexico's relatively healthy $15 billion in foreign currency reserves...