Word: brazilian
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...urban guerrilla follows a political goal and attacks only the government, the big capitalists and the foreign imperialists, particularly North Americans." Since the mid-1960s, when the late Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella made that declaration in a manual that has since become a text for terrorists everywhere, businessmen have found themselves the targets of violence in many parts of the world, notably Latin America and some relatively prospering democracies of Western Europe. The bombings, kidnapings and assassinations have not spread-at least so far-to the U.S., but American firms are increasingly troubled by the phenomenon...
...famed for their aggression on the field as well as their fearsome behavior in the stands, took the field against Peru, a team of elderly stylists. The peculiar system of the rankings dictated that Argentina needed to win by four goals to advance to the final. Otherwise a disappointing Brazilian team would have faced the Dutch. The Argentines won 6-0, a result hard to obtain in soccer even if both teams are kicking in the same direction...
...Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself, at 37 too old to play championship soccer, and too recently the best player in the world to resign himself to his job as a TV commentator, said miserably during the qualifying round that "Brazil, my beloved Brazil...
...jungle apparition. In fact, it was a huge paper factory that Daniel K. Ludwig, the secretive shipping, mining and real estate industrialist whose net worth is estimated to be as high as $3 billion, intends to use in exploiting 500,000 acres of timberland that he owns in the Brazilian wilderness...
...Brazilian environmentalists worry over the long-range impact of Ludwig's deforestation. To feed the mill's appetite, Ludwig's crews have cleared nearly 250,000 acres of jungle so far and planted 81 million fast-growing trees; the raw wood will be hauled to the plant on 150 miles of Ludwig-built railroad...