Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour of Latin America and the Caribbean last week, the important thing was that, for once, something other than a geopolitical crisis was on the horizon. The theme behind most of the stopovers on Shultz's itinerary was democratic transition. Taken together, the visits - to El Salvador, Venezuela, Brazil, Grenada and Barbados - emphasized a hemispheric watershed. Authoritarian rule in the Americas has been gradually descending from its zenith...
Back in Washington, Kissinger called the accusation "a lie." Shultz then flew on to Brazil, landing without fanfare in Rio de Janeiro. At week's end, he was enjoying a tropical round of golf with an aide at the lush Gávea Golf Club prior to a scheduled hourlong meeting on Monday in Brasilia with the country's military President, João Baptista Figueiredo. Once again, progress toward full democracy was liable to be discussed: Figueiredo will step down from the country's most important remaining nonelective political office in March 1985, probably in favor...
...Biscayne Federal Savings ($1.9 billion). A year ago Citicorp purchased California's big Fidelity Savings & Loan ($2.9 billion). During the 1960s and '70s, many money-center banks began looking overseas in search of opportunities to expand. But with their books now showing bad debts from Poland, Brazil and other countries, bankers are trying to tap safer, domestic markets...
According to the SDH, all of the influenza viruses isolated were of the A. Brazil strain, except for one case of the A. Phillipine strain...
...Brazil and A Phillipine strains are descendants of the A Hong Kong strain, said Wacker. The last major mutation of the A Hong Kong was in 1969 so that people born after 1969 would not have been exposed to it and therefore would not be immune to it be explained