Word: penna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest hydroelectric project, which has a dam almost five miles long. To date, nine years after it was begun, Itaipu has cost $18 billion and has generated not a single kilowatt of electricity for Brazil and only a small amount for Paraguay. Says Joāo Camilo Penna, the Minister of Industry and Commerce: "We have $50 billion worth of incomplete projects with zero degree of usefulness...
...expense of employment is misplaced in developing countries. Finally, it is held, the IMF's insistence on suppressing consumer demand is inconsistent and self-defeating: carried to its logical conclusion on a global scale, it would stifle international trade. Says Brazilian Industry Minister Joāo Camilo Penna: "If the IMF's prescription of austerity and slower economic growth to get a country back on its feet is applied to one or two countries, the medicine can work. But if it is given to an entire continent-or, worse, to every developing country in the world-then...
...Spokane, Wash., Jean Penna, 32, a corporate assistant at the Sheraton-Spokane Hotel, was driving to Seattle when she decided to stop first at her mother's home a few blocks from her own. Said she: "In the time it took me to get from my apartment to my mother's house, it went black. All of a sudden this powder began to fall, just like snow. It was 75 degrees outside and pitch black." When she left her apartment complex, she said, several of her friends were sunbathing. "You've got people out there sunbathing...