Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to his work in Poland, Sachs has also advised Latin American governments, including those in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Ecuador...
...Malaysia and South Korea, while still far below their peaks, had bounced up 50% or more from their deflated lows of summer. The Japanese government has announced yet another economic-stimulus program, and optimists hope this one might actually be carried out. Meanwhile, a timely international rescue plan for Brazil has eased fears that Asia's ills would spread inexorably to Latin America, then to the U.S., then Europe, back to Asia and on and on in widening global circles. Accordingly, a few U.S. business people are beginning to cast lines into economies that are still largely underwater and fish...
...DANILO PEREZ Central Avenue (Impulse) Perez, a pianist, is after a kind of musical Creole, mixing straight-ahead bop with motifs from Cuba, Brazil and his native Panama--all at once! Central Avenue may not be the year's most coherent album, but it's emblematic of the new, more supple, more eclectic brand of fusion that's enriching jazz...
...IRAN'S WORLD CUP TEAM The upset of Brazil by France's ethnically diverse home team may have been the defining moment of the World Cup, but for pure excitement it was scrappy Iran trouncing the cocky U.S. team. Any game that, by the second half, persuaded some Americans to root for Iran has to be good...
...takes a moment to realize what I am seeing: a monkey in a tree. To be specific, it is a black spider monkey (Ateles paniscus) swinging through the topmost branches of a ceiba tree in the rain forest in Suriname, the former Dutch Guyana, north of Brazil. Thick-furred, with a red face, the monkey moves by sprawling out and brachiating from branch to branch through the high forest canopy; its long, prehensile tail functions as an arm. It pauses and looks down with the cool expression of a teenager. A monkey in a tree...