Word: brazil
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...probably excessive," he says. "This spike in prices is mainly due to OPEC nations' production cuts in March, which they've been abiding by for once. May's numbers should be back to a comfortable level." Of course, other factors bear watching -- from signs of an economic recovery in Brazil, Thailand and South Korea that could increase oil demand to NATO's ongoing war in Kosovo, which is sucking down fuel like lemonade in summertime. But Baumohl says the markets are jumping the gun -- and are just plain jumpy. "There'll be uncertainty and sell-offs until the Fed announces...
Enrico's revolution has already put Pepsi in a position where it can hurt Coke. For the first time in years, the Big Red growth machine is double-clutching, feeling the dark side of globalization in places like Brazil, its third largest market, where the recent devaluation hurt business severely. Coke's sales are also weak across Asia, and the company's huge investment in Russia is underwater. Pepsi needs to make a dent in Coke away from home, because the Atlantans derive most of their profits outside the U.S., where Coke outsells Pepsi...
Consumers responded. Identigene's business has doubled in each of the past five years. This year the company expects to field 67,000 telephone inquiries and conduct 10,000 DNA tests, compared with 650 tests in 1995. It now has offices in Japan, Korea, Brazil and the Czech Republic...
...would surely admire the vigor of the U.S. economy, but he would also notice that some 40% of the global economy is in recession and much of the rest is slowing down: Japan, flat on its back; Southeast Asia, far poorer than it was just two years ago; Brazil, teetering; Germany, burdened by double-digit unemployment and an economic slowdown; and declining prices worldwide for oil and raw materials...
Others who shared this respect for children--John Dewey in the U.S., Maria Montessori in Italy and Paulo Freire in Brazil--fought harder for immediate change in the schools, but Piaget's influence on education is deeper and more pervasive. He has been revered by generations of teachers inspired by the belief that children are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge (as traditional pedagogical theory had it) but active builders of knowledge--little scientists who are constantly creating and testing their own theories of the world. And though he may not be as famous as Sigmund Freud...