Word: brazile
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...BLAKE, 53, yachtsman and explorer who led New Zealand to America's Cup championships in 1995 and 2000; when masked pirates came aboard his moored yacht and shot him as he tried to prevent the robbery; at the mouth of the Amazon River, near Macapa. Blake had been in Brazil for two months monitoring the effects of global warming and pollution...
...DIED. PETER BLAKE, 53, a two-time America's Cup winner and New Zealand sailing hero, shot by masked pirates who raided his 40-m yacht on the Amazon; near Macapa, Brazil. A U.N. goodwill ambassador, Blake was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution. He won the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 for sailing a catamaran nonstop around the globe in record time. DIED. JUAN JOSE ARREOLA, 83, a fiercely nationalist Mexican author who wrote 16 books of short stories and won Mexico's distinguished National Linguistics and Literature Prize in 1976; in Mexico City. Arreola...
...terror, one part of the world that has received relatively scant attention is South America. But U.S. intelligence agencies are becoming increasingly worried about a nest of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized-crime figures who have taken up residence in South America's tri-border area, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. "It's like the Wild West there," says a Pentagon official. "Crime, religious extremism and politics are all linked under the table." For several years the CIA has had a team of agents monitoring terrorists from Hizballah, Hamas and, more recently, Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization...
...CARLOS GHOSN They said a foreign CEO could never survive the insular culture of Japanese business. Then this quintessential global leader--born in Brazil of Lebanese parents and educated in France--was dispatched by Renault to rescue its stake in NISSAN. Ghosn, 47, briskly closed plants, shed workers, hired stylish new auto designers--and took the company from a $5.6 billion loss in 2000 to this year's $2.5 billion profit. Ghosn's methods are openly copied, the story of Nissan's revival is a best seller in Japan, and Ghosn was named that country's "Father of the Year...
...business. The global economy is slumping and the world's iron-into-steel producers now churn out about 850 million tons of product for a market that demands only 700 million tons. U.S. steel makers say the cheaper steel that comes to U.S. shores from Japan, Brazil, China and other countries is "dumped," or subsidized by those countries' governments. The foreign steel makers and the U.S. companies who buy from them say U.S. steel companies have outdated facilities that make production more expensive. Either way, the U.S. steel industry, between the profits and the pensions, is on a fast track...