Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most sclerotic agencies. Within months, the Commerce Department--of all places--had its own "war room," with charts, maps and tallies of foreign contracts for which U.S. firms were competing. Brown's aggressive lobbying on behalf of U.S. corporations won rave reviews from business leaders. On trips to Japan, Brazil, Africa and a dozen other places, a seat on his plane became one of the most coveted perks of the Clinton Administration...
...Kosuge '99, a native of Brazil, said he is flabbergasted by the springtime snowstorm...
...hopeful. Education activist Paulo Freire spent decades struggling to give children a voice in his native Brazil. Despite a lifetime of failing to achieve his goals, facing exile and accusations, he remained hopeful for the future of the children of his country. "After all," Freire writes, "without hope there is little we can do. It will be hard to struggle on, and when we fight as hopeless or despairing persons, our struggle will be suicidal." Be hopeful and instill a sense of hope and high expectations in the children around...
Indeed Kasparov, who a few weeks ago single-handedly took on the entire national chess team of Brazil, was so confident of winning that he rejected the offer that the $500,000 purse be split 60-40 between winner and loser. Kasparov insisted on winner-take-all. They settled on 80-20. (What, by the way, does Deep Blue do with its 100-grand purse? New chips...
Lawrence predicted that "markedly particularistic cultures that will not give up their particularity" may continue to instigate religious conflict in unstable regions like Yugoslavia, the Middle East and Brazil...