Word: argentina
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...Nobel laureate in literature; in Madrid. The flamboyant author pioneered "tremendismo," a raw writing style that Spain would claim as its own, though Cela's first work, The Family of Pascal Duarte (1942), was considered so violent it was banned in his country and first published in Argentina. The novel eventually became one of the best-read works of Spanish fiction since Cervantes' Don Quixote...
...ARGENTINA Banks Unbalance The government sought to relax banking restrictions that had led to violent protests, but there was no way to disguise the banks' lack of foreign capital as lawyers began investigating the disappearance of billions of dollars before accounts were frozen. President Eduardo Duhalde reopened the stock exchange after forcing the resignation of central bank governor Roque Maccarone, but the measures were unlikely to cause a surge in demand for the peso...
...thought Argentina, with its five Presidents in two weeks, was confusing. Because of a quirk in New Jersey's constitution, that state will have four Governors in nine days this month. Governor Donald DiFrancesco will step down on Jan. 8, when the new legislature is sworn in. But Governor-elect Jim McGreevey will not take office until Jan. 15. State law decrees that in the interim the post must be filled by the senate president. But because the senate is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, the leader of each party will run the state for three days...
...Argentina [5 presidents...
...ARGENTINA Fingers Crossed Having seen six Economy Ministers in a year and five Presidents in two weeks, Argentines were hoping that their latest leaders could rescue the once-prosperous South American country from economic collapse. After the new President, Eduardo Duhalde, declared that "Argentina is bankrupt," the new Economy Minister, Jorge Remes Lenicov, announced a plan to tackle the crisis precipitated by the country's four-year recession and its Dec. 20 default on $132 billion in foreign debt. Remes Lenicov devalued the peso by 40% and announced steep cuts in public services...