Word: guanabara
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Carlos Lacerda, 63, fiery, flamboyant anti-Communist journalist, publisher and politician; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. As governor of Guanabara state, which included Rio de Janeiro, he vociferously supported military leaders in overthrowing President Joao Goulart in 1964. Briefly thereafter a contender for President himself, he eventually, in 1969, was stripped of his political rights for opposing the military regime...
...indexing but to the country's stern wage-price controls. Strikes are banned, what unions exist are kept weak, and yearly wage increases are held below productivity gains. The price index is also blatantly manipulated. It is heavily weighted to living costs prevailing in the state of Guanabara (where Rio de Janeiro is located), where prices trail those in the rest of the country. Last year many prices posted by the government and used in the index were well below the prices that goods were actually selling for. Despite indexing, in the five years ending in 1970, the real...