Word: novo
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...President of the U.S. traveled through the snows of Moscow to the dacha & where an empire had been unmade. The sumptuous three-story house is called Novo Ugaryevo, and it was there in April 1991 that Mikhail Gorbachev negotiated the far-ranging reforms that four months later triggered the coup against him: the coup that brought on the Russian revolution that wiped away the Soviet Union and brought to power Bill Clinton's host, Boris Yeltsin. Last week, as trees and fencing glowed with lights marking the Russian new year, saxophone music floated out of Novo Ugaryevo...
...world order. Why is it so difficult? A precedent occurred not that long ago. One reason men like Roosevelt are such towering figures in hindsight is that they won a peace as well as a war. They were like demiurges, already prepared to re-create the world almost de novo, with initiatives for such global institutions as the United Nations, the Bretton Woods international financial regime and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Conferences and charters proliferated. In the depths of the war, thinkers were planning for the aftermath -- even if their ideas ran to such silly extremes...
...make peace with nature beyond the boundaries of the patchwork of parks and protected areas, which cover less than 1% of the globe. Through a combination of respect for the land and luck, the Pantaneiros have shown that this might be possible. At the headquarters of the huge Novo Miranda Ranch, manager Ito Menezes says, "The Pantanal has always vanquished human attempts to mess...
...disputes that the youngest President in Brazil's history -- he is 40 -- has shaken up his nation as has no other recent chief executive. Hurrying to create "O Brasil Novo," the new Brazil he promised during his campaign, he has reduced an 84% monthly inflation rate to less than 13%; axed some 100,000 employees from the government payroll; and begun to halt the destruction of the country's greatest resource, the Amazon rain forest...
...play, abruptly halted most business activity and dropped inflation to 3.29% in April. Collor also announced the immediate abolition of two dozen state agencies and said he would sell off most state-owned industries. In addition, he called for massive public-sector layoffs and higher taxes. The cruzado novo was replaced by the cruzeiro, Brazil's fourth currency in four years...