Word: brazilianizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Studying the situation last week, Brazilian entomologists pointed out that crickets are controlled by toads, each of which can devour 300 cricket nymphs a night. But for four years in Brazil's Northeast, toads have been hunted for skins, which sell well in the U.S. to make purses, belts and watchbands. Without toads, the cricket population exploded. Until the two get into equilibrium again, St. Sebastian has his work...
...doesn't matter two hoots," says Yale's Robert Triffin. Either way, the end result would be the same: the dollar would buy fewer yen, marks, guilders and other strong currencies. Theoretically, it is true, U.S. devaluation would also make the dollar worth less in terms of Brazilian cruzeiros, Chilean escudos, Indonesian rupiahs and 100-odd other weak or minor currencies. Most of the weak-currency nations, however, probably would devalue simultaneously or soon after the dollar went down; those that did not would see the prices of U.S. products drop in their lands, which would help...
...acquire a more human look. The party newspaper, L'Humanité, has taken to dressing up its dreary polemics with color pictures for weekend editions. The staid old Paris Communist headquarters, with its fortress-like steel doors, has been abandoned for a new glass-fronted building, designed by Brazilian Communist-sympathizer Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia. But nowhere has the new look been more evident than in the party's annual Festival of Humanity...
Escapist Psychology. The project is a politically popular one, at least in part because of recurrent rumors among Brazilian nationalists that the U.S. plans to take over the region for military purposes, or as a home for blacks or a refuge in the event of nuclear attack. Not everyone is enthusiastic about the highway, though. For one thing, most of the money is coming from funds that had been allocated to build impressive new industrial plants in the Northeast. For another, some Brazilians fear that the highway will merely aid large U.S. companies like U.S. Steel and Union Carbide...
Recently, 84 Brazilian social scientists and historians signed a protest scoring the government's intention to force the Amazon tribes out of the way of the vast redevelopment program and onto reservations. Many of the tribes that the government plans to move into reservations, the scientists charged, are hostile to each other. This, plus further contact with civilization, says the International Red Cross, is likely to be the death knell for Brazil's entire Indian population within 20 to 30 years...