Word: brazile
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...playing mahjong or smoking, their mobiles rang regularly as restaurants or familiar customers placed orders. "Now deals are usually carried out at dawn or dusk to avoid government inspectors," says Lao Xu, who sells hunting tridents and fermenting jars at the market. "If you want any wild animal, from Brazil turtles to pangolin, I can arrange for it to be delivered to your designated restaurant within several hours...
...Japan , among other nations, now agree that that Iran is is "non compliance" with the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty, a finding that allows referral to the Security Council, although with no specific timetable. Russia and China and countries of the Non-Aligned Movement such as South Africa and Brazil have opposed the move, and reportedly abstained in today's vote. Their opposition has been based on fears that the crisis will now escalate, possibly to include military intervention and also on concerns that sanctioning Iran for its nuclear energy program could set a precedent that would affect programs elsewhere. China...
...United Nations' General Assembly and celebrate the institution's 60th birthday. Singh had a weighty agenda: he talked Kashmir with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, discussed India's nuclear-energy needs with George W. Bush, and lobbied for a permanent seat on an expanded Security Council. (Japan, Germany and Brazil each want one too.) The U.N.'s "structure and decision-making process," he said in an address to the General Assembly, "reflect the world...
...Brazil's Tramontina has joined the global trend of outsourcing, with a curious twist: the cookwaremaker is moving manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Tramontina last month reopened a shuttered plant in Manitowoc, Wis., and plans to move both line production and raw-material processing there from China. "Once we started looking, we figured out it would be very economical to make our products domestically," says Antonio Galafassi, president of Tramontina USA. Although labor costs are higher, the plant's efficiency and its proximity to big customers offset that disadvantage. The company opened a distribution center in Houston in 1986, when...
...raise pressure on Tehran by referring the matter to the UN Security Council for action, but the EU and others are reluctant to agree because they fear this will accomplish little, and could scuttle any attempts at a peaceful solution. In addition, countries such as Malaysia, Argentina and Brazil that have their own peaceful uranium enrichment programs do not want to put those programs at risk by sanctioning Iran for activities permitted under the NPT. That could make it difficult for the 35 members of the IAEA to achieve the consensus necessary to refer Iran to the Security Council...