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At Latin America's largest integrated steel company, it's not the blast furnaces that are shooting off the biggest sparks these days. It's Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, 40, an economist and financial wizard hired in May to restructure Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, formerly an icon of Brazilian state-driven...
Before coming to CSN, Marques was finance secretary for the city of Rio de Janeiro--a job of Augean proportions. When she arrived in 1993, city coffers held a paltry $5 million. In two years' time, Marques--earning the epithet "the Billion-Dollar Woman"--turned Rio's battered fortunes completely...
The debate over the Acre road places environmentalists in an uncomfortable position, essentially telling Brazilians that they cannot be trusted with their own development. Raimundo Marques da Silva, a retired public servant who helped build Acre's original dirt highway, asks, "How would Americans feel if years ago we had...
"I saw a movie, Go Man Go, about the Harlem Globetrotters," he recalls. "In one scene, Marques Haynes dribbles by Abe Saperstein in a corridor. After that, I worked at handling the ball. I didn't want to be just a good big man. I wanted to be a good...
In Araguari, Brazil, suspicious customers stopped visiting Evaldo Marques' hairdressing salon when he began to lose weight and complain of suffering from constant diarrhea. Others even shunned the private pool where he swam. When he left town to be tested for AIDS, Araguari police advised him not to come back...