Word: braziller
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President Jose Sarney of Brazil is a head of state by happenstance: he inherited his post in April 1985 from Tancredo de Almeida Neves, who died before taking office. Sarney, 56, last week received a mandate of his own. His center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (P.M.D.B.) won a landslide victory that gave it majority control of the 559-member congress and at least 20 of the country's 23 state governorships. The outcome ensured that the P.M.D.B. will also have a dominant voice when legislators draft a new constitution next year...
Last week's turnout for Brazil's first nationwide general election after 21 years of military rule was a tribute to the country's long-suppressed commitment to democracy. Some 69 million voters, or 95% of those registered, cast their ballots. That showing was a record even in a country where voting is compulsory. In working-class neighborhoods in Sao Paulo, residents waited up to an hour in midday heat for the chance to vote...
...crime" and Fred Allen's "A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on." There are quizzes: 1. Was Romeo a Capulet or a Montague? 2. Which Wright brother made the first flight at Kitty Hawk? 3. What word has six successive consonants? 4. How many countries does Brazil border?* And lists of products that need inventing, like a device that reminds the forgetful driver in the car ahead that he is still blinking for a turn. For lagniappe, Hodgepodge offers foreign words the English language could use: magari!, Italian for "Would that it were so!"; razliubito, Russian...
...manufacturer. The experts fear that Ford, by subcontracting so much of its work, could conceivably become a hollow firm lacking the skills to build a car from start to finish. Ford imports its luxury Merkur from West Germany and intends to bring in other autos from Mexico, Australia, Brazil and Taiwan. Next year Ford plans to begin importing a minicar called the Festiva, which will be manufactured by Kia, the automaker's South Korean partner. Ford just missed winning another major ally when it failed two weeks ago in an estimated $2 billion bid to buy Italy's Alfa Romeo...
...bastard son of Network by way of Brazil, the Headroom movie posits a futuristic Britain addicted to television. The evil Network 23 has invented Blipverts, super-effective commercials that have an unfortunate tendency to make couch potatoes explode. Unfortunately for Network 23's plans, their top-rated investigative reporter--played by Matt Frewer, the flesh behind the Headroom fantasy--is trying to uncover the story...