Word: brazilianizing
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...every potential winner, it seems, there's a loser. Saddled with high taxes and a decrepit transportation infrastructure, the Brazilian machinery industry would simply "collapse" if forced to compete with North American firms, a Brazilian industry official says. The country's chemical industry says it would have to invest an extra $5 billion a year to avoid a similar fate, while Gianni Coda, director of Fiat Latin America, frets that "the entire Brazilian automotive sector will lose...
...among pharmaceutical manufacturers that allowing AIDS drugs to become available in Africa at a fraction of the price charged in the U.S. might prompt patients (and even governments) in the industrialized world to begin asking why they ought to continue paying the higher price. Or worse still, that those Brazilian or Indian companies who undercut them in Africa may decide to challenge the pharmaceutical giants in other markets, even in their own backyards...
...Brazil and less than $1,000 in India. And when Brazil decided to provide the generic drugs free to all its AIDS victims, it disproved the argument that poor countries couldn't master the complex regime of AIDS pills. The government set up effective clinics, and reports indicate that Brazilian patients take their medicine as meticulously as American AIDS sufferers...
When it comes to music, Brazil is more than a country, it's a whole world of sounds. The recent megaconcert Rock in Rio III mapped out some of the territory, including the work of several young Brazilian artists who, inspired by old traditions, are exploring new sounds of their...
...half-dozen Brazilian acts dropped out of Rock in Rio, upset that foreign superstar acts, in their estimation, were getting better treatment than the local bands, when, after all, local bands often sell better than superstar foreigners in Brazil. Brazilian musicians have sense of their own worth...