Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brazil...
...specific changes in tariffs and tax regimes, or other aspects of a country's domestic economic policies that in the view of World Bank experts impede the growth and productivity provided only by free markets. Last month the U.S. Treasury extolled a $500 million World Bank loan to Brazil as an "excellent" example of such lending. In return for the money, Brazil agreed to cut deeply into a variety of agricultural subsidies and to relax government control of the marketing of soy products, corn and cotton...
...Brazil...
...Brazil, Galigula, Home of the brave, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stop Making Sense today and tomorrow at midnight...
...beyond its means. The Commerce Department reported last week that America had become the largest debtor in the world. Its net debt, meaning the difference in value between foreign holdings in the U.S. and American investments abroad, reached $107.4 billion in 1985. That figure put the U.S. ahead of Brazil ($94.1 billion) and Mexico ($93.1 billion). Japan, with net assets of $129.8 billion, became the world's largest creditor nation in 1985 because of its huge, recurring trade surpluses...