Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that has fed them for centuries, means more well-paid jobs for the educated elite, and increased foreign exchange with which to import luxury goods. Senegal provided all the initial capital for Bud Antle's operation there, and removed villagers from land the company wanted for its plantations. The Brazilian government is clearing the Amazon rain forest to make way for American-owned companies who hope to grow beef, a luxury among foods, when it could give the land to the Brazilian landless as farms. The Shah of Iran spent millions of dollars on irrigation projects in the late...
...Americans suddenly discover the joy in soccer that most of the rest of the world has long known? Look no further than the foot of Brazilian Pelé, who will retire this season after two decades as the world's premier player (and the world's highest-paid athlete). Although the N.A.S.L. was founded nine years ago, soccer as an American spectator sport was really born in 1975 when the Cosmos persuaded Pelé to come out of retirement with a $4.75 million, three-year contract to evangelize Americans for soccer. His arrival brought instant respectability to American...
...down will prices go? Some Brazilian coffee experts say that over the next 18 months or so the price of raw coffee could gradually decline to about $1 per Ib. on the New York market, which would translate into a retail price somewhere in the $2 range, depending upon quality and brand. That is just above what coffee cost before it zoomed off on its great roller-coaster ride...
Like leaders of other governments along the tour, Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the "extraordinary woman." Brazilian officials gave their poised and well-briefed visitor high marks for her meetings with President Ernesto Geisel. Said one diplomat: "This lady knows what she's talking about. She asks the right questions and has the right answers. There's no fooling around." Speaking her mind, the First Lady re-emphasized to Geisel her husband's concern about nuclear proliferation. The Brazilians resent Carter's opposition...
...official meetings on her schedule. There she will have to defend her husband's refusal to sell an extra $50 million in arms to the rightist regime, his statements on human rights violations, and his opposition to Brazil's purchase of a nuclear power plant from West Germany. Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel has agreed to receive her with all due correctness ?but may well have some pointed questions...