Word: brazil
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What is most striking about that table is its national representation. To go around this week's table, the students came from Brazil, France, Mexico, Spain, Greece, Poland and Korea (is something missing...
...centrifuges. The centrifuges take uranium-bearing ore or a mixture called yellowcake and separate out the 3% of uranium 235, which is fissionable, from the 97% of uranium 238, which is not. Iraq is known to possess 250 tons of yellowcake, most of it purchased in the 1970s from Brazil, China and Niger. In recent years the country has also begun producing its own yellowcake from mines in northern Iraq...
When describing his radical plan to reform Brazil's out-of-control economy, President Fernando Collor de Mello used to state his goal by quoting Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes: "To win -- or to win." But in recent months the supremely confident Collor, 41, has notched precious few victories. The inflation rate, after being cut from 80% a month to less than 10%, is back to 17%. Interest rates are sky-high; unemployment is rising. Last week Collor got more bad news. In runoff elections for 15 governorships, progovernment candidates lost in the biggest and most influential states, including Sao Paulo...
Last month the leader of Collor's party in Congress resigned, grousing that the President was behaving like "an unthroned emperor." Now Collor must establish a dialogue with Congress. That dialogue may result in wage hikes and other measures that could carry Brazil into a new round of hyperinflation...
When he gets back from that jaunt, he plans to hang out at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for only four days, then to roar south to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela and Uruguay. In January it must be Moscow, if Bush's pal Mikhail Gorbachev is still in charge, followed by stops in Turkey and Greece. By the end of February, Air Force One is expected to be riding the billowy cumulus above Australia, headed for South Korea and Japan, leading to the dark suspicion that Bush may be trying to emulate Lyndon B. Magellan (a tag pasted on L.B.J. when...