Word: argentina
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...dare shed a tear for Argentina. If you decide to travel there, you will shed plenty of tears--most before you arrive...
...marine organisms are not shrinking so far, but they have begun to produce UV-absorbing pigments. In Australia, scientists believe that crops of wheat, sorghum and peas have been affected, and health officials report a threefold rise in skin cancers. There are anecdotal reports of more cancer in Argentina too. While no increase in cancers or cataracts has shown up yet in Chile or New Zealand, experts note that these diseases can take years to develop...
According to a study by Morgan Stanley Capital International, the 1991 world champions came from Latin America. The markets in Argentina, Mexico and Chile were up 403%, 120% and 106%, respectively, after converting local currency gains into dollars. (Brazil, an even higher flyer, lost out on conversion: the cruzeiro sank about as fast as the market rose.) But it wasn't just a Latin carnival. The Philippine stock market trebled Wall Street's 26% gain, Hong Kong nearly doubled it, and Australia matched...
Campbell Soup Co. spent part of the $450,000 it got from the government to remind the people of Japan, Korea, Argentina and Taiwan to have a V-8 juice. Joseph E. Seagram and Sons touted its Four Roses whiskey in Europe and the Far East with $146,000 from the department...
...boyish-faced, tousle-haired Sachs hardly looks like someone who would make a practice of unleashing economic revolutions. Son of a Detroit labor lawyer, he was a full professor at Harvard at 29. Competition is the core of the Sachs credo. Countries as diverse as Argentina under the generals, Portugal under Salazar and the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, he argues, condemned themselves to stagnation by opting out of the competitive international economy...