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...future could be even brighter. Only 30% of Brazil's proven oil reserves are developed, and Petrobras has first call on much of the rest. The volume of those reserves is expected to grow substantially as the company explores the vast Amazon Basin and oil pools off the Atlantic coast. Petrobras has become a leader in drilling deepwater, offshore wells in the so-called Campos Basin off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Now the company is looking into joint ventures with 56 potential foreign partners, including Exxon, Shell and British Gas, which would allow expanded exploration around the country...
...Inflation, which reached 34.4% in 1996, will be sliced in half by the end of next year. Brazil's economy will expand 4% this year and 4.4% in 1998, according to Behravesh. Argentina, which was wallowing in recession in 1995, has rebounded sharply and will grow 6.5% this year and 5.5% in 1998, he predicts. Inflation will be zero this year and below 4% next year...
...slid 25% against the U.S. dollar over the past 12 months, other currencies also fell. Then stock markets swooned. Economist Behravesh predicts little growth (1.5%) this year in Thailand, after an annual average of 9% for the past decade. But it will rebound to 3% in 1998. Indonesia will grow 6.5% in 1997 and 6% the following year. The Philippines, which rose a record 5.5% in 1996, will slip back to about 4.5% this year and 4% thereafter. Anemic Japan will do little to counter the trend. Growth for 1997 is expected to reach just...
...felt they had been hurt by the capsules. New York lawyer Paul Rheingold, author of four suits so far, describes the diet-pill debacle as such "easy" pickings that he expects "many thousands of lawsuits scattered all around the country." Eventually, say some analysts, the Redux-fenfluramine recall could grow into one of the biggest medical-liability cases in history, perhaps exceeding the anticipated $2.4 billion from silicone breast implants...
Save, perhaps, for the title character's coma, Larry's Party would seem to offer readers an experience about as exciting as watching shrubs grow. But Shields demonstrates that doing just that can be fascinating if seen through the speeded-up, time-lapse frames of her narrative. Larry develops from "a dreamy kid" into a grown man who feels that "he's been dozing off again." Life has pruned him for good and ill but not altered his essential stock. His passive nature, his curiosity about what will happen to him next, does not form the raw material for high...