Word: braziller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some of the pentiti brought before the bench in Palermo have been impressive. Tommaso (Don Masino) Buscetta was known as the "Boss of Two Worlds" because he used to control extensive operations in both Italy and Brazil. Buscetta, who testified in New York's "pizza connection" trial about heroin smuggling between U.S. and Sicilian mobsters, provided new evidence about the operations of the Mafia's ruling Commission. A second pentito, the mid-level Mob executive Salvatore (Toto) Contorno, made detailed accusations against defendants based on his firsthand knowledge of the Mafia's internecine warfare over the drug market...
...Popular Democratic Front, an outlawed Marxist coalition; and Rafael Marroto, a spokesman for the Movement of the Revolutionary Left. Five Catholic priests, two Americans and three French, who worked with the poor were also detained. A few days later, the French clerics were put on a plane to Brazil...
...speculated (widely, of course) about the love affair between journalese-users and hyphenated modifiers. The gist of all this cerebration seems to be that readers cannot stand the shock of an unmodified noun, at least on first reference. Thus we have Libyan-sponsored terrorism, Ping-Pong diplomacy, debt-laden Brazil and the two most popular hyphenated modifiers of the 1980s, "financially-troubled" and "financially-plagued," which can fairly be used to describe most Latin American nations, many banks and the United States Football League. The Syrian-backed P.L.O., an earlier hyphenated champion, had to be retired when the Syrian backers...
Dollars have long served as an inflation hedge in Brazil in bad times. The irony was that they now seemed to be serving that purpose in good times. The government's recent policies beat inflation back to a 1.2% monthly rate in July, and wage increases gave consumers the wherewithal for a huge spending binge. But the buying spate has created shortages -- at official prices -- of such items as automobiles, meat and eggs, leading merchants to ask for under- the-table sweeteners, meaning renewed price pressure. When the raids were launched, illicit greenbacks were selling in Brazil for 88% more...
...Mexico a $12 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund. The eleventh-hour breakthrough in the negotiations, helped by Treasury Secretary James Baker and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, saved Mexico from defaulting on its nearly $100 billion foreign debt, the largest in Latin America except for Brazil...