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...healthy psyche, the President is a moral man with surprisingly accurate instincts about what is good for this country. At least he will not sell our interests down the river as Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman did when they dealt with the Soviet Union at Yalta and Potsdam. Gail Funaro Cerritos, Calif...
...including health care and professional services) unwilling to consider management candidates from outside those fields, even when they meet or exceed all other job requirements. I'll continue to hope for a more robust economic turnaround while mulling over the ups and downs of opening a gourmet shop. JEROME FUNARO Baltimore...
...bankers may be able to breathe a little easier now, because Dilson Funaro has lost his job. The contentious Brazilian Finance Minister had hoped to pressure foreign banks into drastic concessions on the country's $108 billion in debts. But last week Funaro, who proved unable to rein in Brazil's runaway economy, was dumped by President Jose Sarney in favor of the more pragmatic Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, 52, an economist and businessman. Bresser Pereira promptly devalued Brazil's currency 8.5% against the U.S. dollar in an effort to boost export income, which should improve the country's ability...
Also high on last week's agenda was the international debt problem, which heated up last February when Brazil suspended payments on its $68 billion worth of foreign bank loans. Brazilian Finance Minister Dilson Funaro was at the meeting, trying to win support for new credit to his country. He warned that debtor nations were on a "very short lifeline" and "being pushed to the end of their payment capacity." But Funaro received little encouragement from the G-7 representatives, who maintain that Brazil must reform its economy and curb its rampaging 600% inflation rate...
...Brazilian posture was outlined by Finance Minister Dilson Funaro in a speech he gave last week before the ruling Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. Funaro repeated his vow to withhold interest payments until a debt- restructuring agreement is worked out. Any pact, he said, must involve a reduction in Brazil's interest obligations. Such a decline is necessary, Funaro argued, in order for the Brazilian economy to expand...