Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also cited by the University were the Most Rev. Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil; Chien-Shiung Wu, an experimental nuclear physicist; and Clifford Geertz, a social anthorpologist...
...Australia last week, but so too was one for the A300B. Its salesmen claim that the A300B is quieter than rivals and, even more enticing, uses roughly 23% less fuel per seat mile than a 727. So far, eight airlines-six from Europe, one from Thailand and one from Brazil-have ordered 22 airbuses, at $21 million to $22 million each; options have been taken on 25 more...
...Social Security payments now automatically escalate with the consumer price index. Last week Republican Senator James Buckley of New York introduced a bill to tie tax liability and the value of Government bonds to movements in price indexes. Most significant, wholesale indexing has been a critical factor in cooling Brazil's scorching inflation rate, which was 88% a year in 1964 when the present authoritarian military government took over. In the first three months of this year, it dropped to an annual rate...
...there are reasons to suspect the success of indexing, even in Brazil. For one thing, a 39% inflation rate is scarcely anything to celebrate. For another, a large part of the credit for containing inflation in Brazil must go not to indexing but to the country's stern wage-price controls. Strikes are banned, what unions exist are kept weak, and yearly wage increases are held below productivity gains. The price index is also blatantly manipulated. It is heavily weighted to living costs prevailing in the state of Guanabara (where Rio de Janeiro is located), where prices trail those...
...confederation might well include Brazil, which has historical and linguistic ties to Portugal, Rogers said. In addition, Brazil may be interested in channeling some of its growing industrial output to African markets, he added...