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...vessel or aircraft," a crime roughly equivalent to involuntary manslaughter, wasn't serious enough to keep them in the country, and many see it as much an indictment of their nationality as of their role in the crash. Moreover, critics argue that the charges simply mask the shortcomings of Brazil's own deteriorating military-run commercial aviation system...
...Dias was not entirely shocked that his clients were shouldering the blame. Brazil may have an admirable air safety record, but it also has collectively thin skin - and once the shock of the tragedy wore off and the investigation began, Brazilians immediately rushed to point the finger at others. Leaks from police, investigators or military officers who run Brazil's air traffic system portrayed the two pilots as irresponsible amateurs who flew at the wrong altitude, ignored controllers' orders, performed reckless maneuvers, changed their flight plan without notifying the tower or switched off crucial equipment that could have warned...
...carry a maximum sentence of four years, and such relatively short sentences are often commuted. Even though the two could theoretically be called to give more evidence from the U.S. under the two countries' Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, their lawyer makes it clear they won't be returning to Brazil...
...first of many. Indians, Brazilians, Chinese, Russians and other entrepreneurs from emerging economies are now jostling for assets all over the world as they seek to become global players. As 2006 was drawing to a close, two other steel titans, one from India, the other from Brazil, were locked in a multibillion-dollar battle for an Anglo-Dutch firm, Corus, while Evraz, a Russian company controlled by billionaire Roman Abramovich, agreed to buy the U.S. firm Oregon Steel Mills for $2.3 billion to create the world's biggest producer of rails...
...everyone else conducts themselves. But in football (for some, surely, this is part of its charm) the U.S. is just one of the crowd. Its team is on the level of Sweden, say, or Mexico, not that of the perennial superpowers of the sport such as Germany, Italy and Brazil...