Word: brazile
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Then, after much soul-searching, I realized that my new sagacious, erudite, and non-pedantic ways were undoubtedly due to the fact that this was the first time I was visiting Brazil since enrolling at Harvard. Yes, I was now coming back to where I was born, coming back to see my entire family—and, so help me, they were going to see just what one scholastic year in the Ivy League does to a man. A bearded...
...free-market reforms that are allegedly widening the gap between the region's rich and poor. Since Chávez was elected in 1998 (and again in a special 2000 election), leftist leaders like him have taken power or are leading voter polls in eight countries, including the two largest, Brazil and Mexico. The most recent domino to fall was Bolivia. Last month an uprising by indigenous citizens demanding the nationalization of the country's natural-gas reserves toppled the President, Bolivia's second to go in less than two years. Says Evo Morales, the rebellion's leftist leader...
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...Wolpe-Kaptur bill would prohibit high-ranking officials from lobbying for any foreign principal in the ten years after they leave office. It is outrageous that public service is being used as a training academy for lobbyists who will enrich themselves on $250,000 annual retainers from Singapore and Brazil. Howard Wolpe, U.S. Representative Third District, Michigan Washington...
...dollar by about 30% since its peak in February 1985 will help beleaguered U.S. exporters boost business by making their products more competitive with foreign rivals. Meanwhile, the decline in global interest rates will ease the burden on staggering debtors, ranging from U.S. farmers to developing countries like Brazil and Argentina. And even one of the thorniest problems of them all, the U.S. budget deficit, is becoming slightly less severe...