Word: luiz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Third World countries, government officials were loath to criticize Citicorp's new hard-nosed policy. Brazil's Finance Minister, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, said he saw the bank's move as a prudent shoring up of its foundations. Said a top Argentine official: "It's the first sign that U.S. ^ banks are prepared to share the burden of the debt crisis." Other foreign moneymen welcomed Citicorp's action because it might mean that all U.S. banks will start treating Third World debt under the same terms as Japanese, West German and Swiss banks, which have already established substantial loss reserves...
...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 to pay its debts...
...probably don't have the AIDS virus, but to be safe, they'd better not donate blood." At present, only those whose AIDS test is clearly positive are notified. Most important, the panel called for continued efforts to develop more precise blood-screening tests. Such tests, says NIH Administrator Luiz Barbosa, are already in the pipeline, but they must be adapted for use on a mass basis. In two years, he predicts, "we will have a very sensitive test...
...Luiz Felipe da Silva Haddad