Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot remain isolated," Larrainsaid. "If Brazil and Latin America fall into acrisis, the U.S. will be hurt deeply on trade[and] profits...
Aides to Cardoso privately expressed hope that the promise of a bailout would bolster investor confidence in Brazil. But the country's President knows much more is required. Two weeks before the election, Cardoso went on national television and explained that the country will have to learn "to live within its means." Which means, for starters, that Mayor Almeida can expect...
...jittery traders dismissed the Federal Reserve's quarter-point cut in interest rates as too puny and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging 448 points in two days. In Washington State, farmers watched helplessly as their grain piled into huge drifts for lack of Asian buyers. In slumping Brazil, Ford and General Motors, which only recently completed new plants in the country, had to cut production drastically. And the future could be grimmer still, according to the International Monetary Fund, which reported at its annual assemblage of world finance ministers last week that "the risks of a deeper, wider...
...Avenue (Impulse!), one of the fall's most passionate and enjoyable albums. Perez wants to broaden the Latin jazz palette beyond Cuba to embrace the entire hemisphere. And why stop there? In one cut, the 32-year-old pianist works in motifs from his native Panama as well as Brazil, Cuba, the Middle East (via Spain) and, thanks to the contributions of a tabla player, India. Perez sees a pendulum effect at work: after a period of retrenchment, jazz, as it often has been in the past, is in a more acquisitive mood. "It's like religion," Perez says...
Monica Lewinsky--just one more courtesan to shake an empire. K. HELMUT LENNEBERG Correas, Brazil...