Word: brazile
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...chief executive A.G. Lafley has argued that the combination will rev up sales of Gillette's men's grooming line, particularly in markets like China, where P&G is strongly embedded, and Procter's business stands to gain from Gillette's formidable operations in countries like India and Brazil. "Together, P&G and Gillette could grow at levels neither of us could sustain on our own," Lafley told investors last week. Specifically, he and Kilts (who will stay on as a P&G vice chairman) pledged to squeeze $14 billion to $16 billion in "revenue and cost synergies...
...introduced to chaos theory. A chaotic system like weather appears to behave randomly but is actually governed by rules. It is also influenced by seemingly trivial tweaks to the system--hence the old romantic notion that a flap of a butterfly's wings in the rain forest of Brazil might give rise to a storm off the coast of Iceland. Perhaps, thought Hoffman, chaos and sensitivity, which make weather so difficult to predict, could be harnessed to purposely change...
...plug some of the gaps in its accounts. As early as 1993, according to evidence given to magistrates in Parma, Parmalat allegedly began to play fast and loose with its balance sheet. Starting in 1992, the group began buying up dairy and other companies in Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Hungary and the U.S. "It was a reversal of logic," says Vito Zincani, the chief investigating magistrate in Parma. Usually, companies take on debt in order to grow. But in Parmalat's case, "they had to grow to hide the debt," Zincani says...
...nations with designs on permanent seats--India, Japan, Germany and Brazil--greeted the proposals more or less warmly, despite the disappointing denial of veto power. But they still have lobbying to do. Any amendment to the U.N. charter would have to be approved by two-thirds of the U.N.'s member countries, including all of the permanent five, as well as two-thirds of the national legislatures in those approving countries. That might prove difficult, since each contender for a permanent seat could see its hopes scuttled by jealous neighbors. India will be opposed by Pakistan, and Japan could...
...Kuomintang-led opposition, which favors eventual reunification with China, retained a slim majority, winning 114 seats in the 225-member parliament. Chen was elected President in March by a wafer-thin majority; his legislative agenda is now likely to remain stalled. Latin Union PERU Twelve South American countries - including Brazil and Argentina, the continent's largest nations - signed a declaration creating the South American Community of Nations, an economic and political bloc that its leaders hope will one day mirror the E.U. Justices Found Wanting ECUADOR A new Supreme Court took office a day after Congress voted to replace...