Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEY SAY THE Brazilians are the best dancers (as well as the best soccer players) in the world. And their music is just as good. Jorge Ben is a musician who's been called Brazil's Marvin Gaye, and his latest album, Tropical, is a paean to escapism. Listening to it is like reading stream-of-consciousness poetry--surreal and full of images, from a cafe on a black-and -white mosaic Rio sidewalk to a red-dirt hairpin road winding up a jungled hill in Latin America. It makes you think of visiting Dom Pedro II's cracked stucco...
...Brazil's music makes rich use of its mixed national heritage: samba, conga, bossa nova and salsa mingle with rock and jazz influences from European groups. But today, musicians like Ben or his equally popular and more jazz-oriented contemporary Milton Nascimento are being enjoyed by the gringos who used either to sneer at "torrid-fun-in-the-sun rnythms" or water-down tangos for lounge lizards...
Mondale found the Germans and the French reluctant to modify their deals for the sale of nuclear reprocessing plants to Brazil and Pakistan respectively. But they told Mondale they were willing to tighten international safeguards to prevent the conversion of spent reactor fuel into atomic weapons-a high Carter priority. Mondale also got agreement for further high-level international negotiations to limit the export of nuclear facilities...
Inflation accounting has been used successfully in Brazil, where inflation rates have been hovering around 40%. Holland's huge Philips Co. has been using replacement-cost accounting for more than 15 years. Shell Oil Co. offered its 1974 results in both "historical dollars" and "current dollars" adjusted for purchasing power, an approach similar to one advocated by the American accounting profession's own Financial Accounting Standards Board...
After a prolonged sit, though, one usually returns to the front with either Montezuma's revenge or a stomach cavity the size of Brazil...