Word: chile
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...that airline meals taken on at a stop in Lima were tainted. Other major carriers now are taking special precautions. While American Airlines has eliminated green salads and fresh seafood from its South American menus, Varig copes by loading its planes with extra food from safer sources in Brazil, Chile and Argentina...
...absorbing pigments. In Australia, scientists believe that crops of wheat, sorghum and peas have been affected, and health officials report a threefold rise in skin cancers. There are anecdotal reports of more cancer in Argentina too. While no increase in cancers or cataracts has shown up yet in Chile or New Zealand, experts note that these diseases can take years to develop...
This simply underlines how many games there now are in town. New York, London and Tokyo may be the heavyweights, but there is action in Thailand, Jordan and Chile as well. Datastream International, a company that provides market data, tracks 40 stock markets worldwide. Brokerage houses now need the horizons of travel agents to satisfy a clientele no longer content to stay at home. Much treasure lies buried on distant shores, in places that used to show up only in holiday brochures or travelogues...
According to a study by Morgan Stanley Capital International, the 1991 world champions came from Latin America. The markets in Argentina, Mexico and Chile were up 403%, 120% and 106%, respectively, after converting local currency gains into dollars. (Brazil, an even higher flyer, lost out on conversion: the cruzeiro sank about as fast as the market rose.) But it wasn't just a Latin carnival. The Philippine stock market trebled Wall Street's 26% gain, Hong Kong nearly doubled it, and Australia matched...
...medicine is driving people into the & streets. Last week he called the Russian situation "politically very risky." But he says the slower approach that Yeltsin's critics advocate will only prolong the agony without providing the benefits of a market economy. Sachs notes that in cases like Bolivia and Chile, where shock policies have worked, it took about five years "to make the changes so widespread and visible that they became self-sustaining." But will the Russian people -- and their politicians -- have that much patience...