Word: brazilianizing
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...delegation of 77 Brazilian students will arrive in Cambridge Sunday night or two weeks of study in a special program set up by, the Summer School...
...turned out, the principal effect of the changes was to drive from the Finance Ministry Francisco San Tiago Dantas, a brilliant, opportunistic politician whom the U.S. regarded as a man doing his honest best to carry out a needed austerity in Brazilian affairs. Having obliged the spenders by removing Dantas, Goulart quieted the savers by appointing in his place Carlos Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, a hardheaded governor largely responsible for Brazil's most fabulous success story, booming São Paulo state. Goulart's choice as Foreign Minister was more controversial-his own chief presidential adviser, Evandro...
Businessmen who live high on the hog irritate a Brazilian intellectual named Israel Klabin. "In an underdeveloped country," says Klabin, "there can be no elite." Yet Klabin himself, a businessman as well as a Sorbonne graduate, belongs to-and prizes membership in -an elite of sorts. At 36, he is one of Brazil's brightest young businessmen and the primus inter pares of an unusual family whose members share equally the profits and responsibilities of running a $130 million business complex. "We are," says Israel Klabin, "something like the Rothschilds...
...industry. At least 5,000 of Bolivia's 25,000 mineworkers and 30,000 of Argentina's 180,000 railway workers are superfluous. Chile's creaking national railroad employs 87 men per mile of track v. 27 in Britain, where that number is considered heavy featherbedding. Brazilian 10,000-ton freighters have an average 49 crewmen each, while similar ships under other flags use only 37.* Argentina's depressed auto manufacturers, producing at scarcely 30% of capacity, are desperately trying to thin their ranks; but when Kaiser tried to do so, workers seized the plant...
...another way of seeking extra benefits, the proud and potent Brazilian dockworkers, who take home close to $500 a month but let automatic loading machines do part of the work, are demanding "shame" bonuses of 30% for handling such cargo as toilet bowls and sanitary napkins...