Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some economists believe the IMF's influence in handling the debt crisis is weakening. They note that Brazil has refused to come to terms with the fund and has revived its economy by following its own growth-minded policies. Many applaud the change in the IMF's philosophy. Says Fred Bergsten, director of Washington's Institute for International Economics: "It is a new lease on life for the IMF in the management of the debt problem...
...poets. Henry VIII, who liked to write verse when he wasn't making life brutish or short for his wives. Chairman Mao, who, when visited by the muse, commanded the largest audience for poetry in history. Poet Leopold Senghor, former President of Senegal. Poet Jose Sarney, current President of Brazil. If political leaders happen not to be poets, they can always seek one's company, so that he may write them into immortality or simply decorate a hard, unlyrical business. John Kennedy had genuine affection for the work of Robert Frost, but the poet's presence at Kennedy's Inaugural...
...search of such medical bounty, Mark Plotkin, director of the World Wildlife Fund's plant program, has spent months at a time living with the Tirio tribe on the Suriname-Brazil border, studying the little-known plants the shamans use to treat patients. "Each time one of the medicine men dies," he says, "it's as if a library has burned down...
...little and fear the gesture may be too late. Says Wilson: "The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect...
...command the city with their lusty self-assurance; who shop at Benetton's and Bergdorf's, have plenty of style, plenty of clothes; who do not leave home without American Express. But they do leave home. Breezy, noisy, they lope about the fashionable streets like flocks of orphans in Brazil or in Beirut, like the earth's poorest children -- hanging out, swooping into saloons where no one looks twice at the doctored ID cards; the kids' money is good. Don't blame the saloonkeepers, say the sociologists. Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom...