Word: brazile
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...backpack. Over the weekend, I was at a music festival with 36,000 people when we walked right past each other. We didn’t exchange a word, but a creepy sense of recognition was definitely there.But besides reading time and a freakish connection with Mystery Man From Brazil, three hours a day of transit have given me valuable perspective. Working at a nonprofit social services agency designing a pre-employment program for low-income youth living in public housing (and getting to and from it), I have come to realize my situation is, well, quite ideal...
Hamilton's love, though, remains surfing. She spends three weeks in a typical month traveling to competitions and has surfed off Brazil, Indonesia and Australia. But there are no waves like home. "Hawaii," she says, "will always be my favorite...
Financial markets have had the wind at their backs for the last few years. Historically low interest rates, the economic rise of China, India, Russia and Brazil, and consistently strong corporate earnings made for heady increases in stock and commodities markets around the world. This has created the illusion that just about any bet - even the risky ones such as sugar futures and Indian pharmaceutical companies - was bound to pay off handsomely. Since May, that optimism has been challenged. Today asset prices are being weighed down by two powerful forces: monetary policy and geopolitical angst. This [an error occurred while...
...reforms that spur competition and open markets. They would also be required to enact political reforms that strengthen democratic practices and institutions. It could be a powerful stimulus for positive change, since few countries in the region could afford to be left out of an economic arrangement that included Brazil...
...this stage it doesn't seem likely. The first measure would provoke howls from many Cuban exiles in Florida, while the second would irk U.S. business interests that would face competition from Brazilian imports. But if Richard Nixon could go to China, perhaps George W. Bush could discover Brazil--and stop making a failed Caribbean dictator an important element of U.S. policy. It could be that an embattled, second-term U.S. President looking for a legacy other than a botched attempt at installing democracy in faraway lands could warm up to the idea of leaving a permanent, positive mark...