Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BRAZIL...
...Brazilian musical? The words evoke memories of Carmen Miranda, teeth gleaming, hips undulating, r's trilling, balancing a headdress of tropical fruit heavy enough to give the strongest Rio dock worker a hernia. That was '40s Hollywood, whose notion of Brazil was half picture postcard, half Daliesque daydream. Since then, a group of engaged intellectuals, collectively called cinema novo, have created a native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate...
Moreover, the steel market is suffering from excess capacity. In recent years, developing countries from Saudi Arabia to South Korea have rushed to build their own steel plants, thus cutting imports from the U.S., Japan and Western Europe. Brazil, a traditional importer, has even begun to export raw steel products. While steel production in the industrialized countries is expected to fall by 8.1% during the fourth quarter, it will increase by 7.1% in the developing nations. At the same time, some industrial countries like Italy and West Germany have continued to build new, more efficient plants, even though the international...
...Brazil, Latin America's other big sugar producer, accounts for close to 10% of world output and has enjoyed a good harvest. But sugar in that country is now winding up as an important source of automotive fuel instead of as a sweetener on dinner tables. Brazil has embarked on a crash program to manufacture ethyl-alcohol automobile fuel from sugar cane. And last month, when the Persian Gulf war halted oil shipments from Iraq, which supplies 50% of Brazil's petroleum imports, the government slapped an emergency ban on all new sugar export contracts. The action...
...birth control and are unwilling to obey it. But no one at the synod questioned Paul VI's teaching on birth control. And it soon became clear that many bishops in non-Western parts of the world take a dim view of contraception. Social-action liberal bishops from Brazil and other Third World nations spoke with special vehemence against it. Declared one Spanish language working group at the synod: "Christian marriage must be considered as a vocation to fertility...