Word: brazilians
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...doubt, fork out. If you have a generous budget, here are a few ideas that are sure to make them smile: For The Kids The ultimate place to hang out with a few friends, this stuffed-toy chair (above, $5,400) is the handiwork of the Campana Brothers, Brazilian designers known for using inexpensive materials. At www.mossonline.com. For Her What's the real reason she's always so eager to watch Sex and the City? So that she can get a better look at Carrie's Manolos. Forget snow boots, this year buy her shoes she wouldn't buy herself...
...Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso warned against a one-size-fits-all approach to democracy in a speech at the JFK Jr. Forum last night...
...civil society into a language my colleagues can understand." He also tries to identify relief organizations and other groups working in poor countries who could help smooth relations with local people. One such project is in the Niger delta, where the firm is funding a project by a Brazilian-French nongovernmental organization called Pro-Natura that's trying to help local communities set up democratic decision-making bodies and develop the economy. "They are not doing this to save the planet," says Guy F. Reinaud, Pro-Natura International's president, of Total's motives. "But they've understood that...
...world of trade negotiations, Cancún is already legendary. In September, as Caribbean waves lapped the beach outside their hotel, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim handed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick a new set of demands from a coalition of 22 developing countries, led by Brazil, China and India. If the U.S., the E.U. and other developed nations failed to slash their hundreds of billions in agriculture tariffs and subsidies, the poorer nations would refuse to discuss issues dear to the rich, like investment rules and intellectual-property rights. Zoellick stood up, Amorim recalls, and said that while...
...example, Brazil and the U.S. together produce 90% of the world's orange juice. Brazil exports all but 1% of its juice, while Americans guzzle 68 million glasses a day - a more than $3 billion market. But to protect U.S. citrus growers, Washington slaps a whopping 52% tariff on Brazilian o.j. In the past 15 years, that has cut Brazil's share of the U.S. frozen concentrated orange-juice market from 45% to less than 15%. The U.S. claims it can't negotiate those duties in the ftaa. The reason: Brazil's lower wages and looser environmental standards, for example...