Word: brazil
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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...
...take the charges one at a time. The Dutch East India Company did not deal in the slave trade. As for the "Portuguese company" and the "Brazilian company," I can only assume Jeffries meant the Brazil Company, founded by Portugal to attract Jews. It too did not deal in slavery. Of the four, only the Dutch West India Company did in fact deal in the slave trade. Of the company's 3,000,000 florins in original capital, Jews contributed only 36,000, or 1.2 percent. In 1656, seven of 167 major shareholders were Jews...
...There's a big difference between America and Brazil; the way people live, talk, share," he says...
...crossover potential of the new aural hybrids is obvious on Mickey Hart's Planet Drum, a dazzling display of rhythmic virtuosity performed by the Grateful Dead drummer and a super group of percussionists from Nigeria, Brazil and India. Planet Drum, which has been No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart for the past nine weeks, is a rollicking time machine, at once archaic and up-to-the-second, primal and technologically smart. In songs like Udu Chant, Temple Caves and Dance of the Hunter's Fire, the players coax a torrent of tattoos and flowing rhythms from a battery...
...power of the veto that the "perm five" possess. Opponents of that idea fear that revising the Charter would lift the lid of Pandora's box: the Third World would demand its own place on the Security Council in the form of seats for three regional powers -- India, Brazil and Nigeria. Otherwise, power in the council would be weighted against the poorer nations of the world...