Word: rios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country (76,300), with the highest occupancy rate (79%). More than 18 million passengers arrive at Orlando International Airport every year, three times the number entering 10 years ago -- and, if the planners are right, half the number who will alight three years from now. Cities from Rio to Frankfurt have direct flights to the Disney doorstep, and airport officials are already preparing for a day in the next century when tourists from San Francisco will hop across the continent in 39 commuting minutes...
...efforts fail, however, the disease could continue its eastward march and strike such major coastal cities as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which are teeming with favelas, or slums. "That would be disastrous," says Afonso Infurna Jr., vice president of the Brazilian commission. "Health and hygiene conditions are already poor, and the disease could spread rapidly." Although Infurna and other commission officials predict they will contain the infection, they admit that the cost of treating a full-scale epidemic would be high -- on the order of $600 million...
...discussion dealt with international involvement in environmentalism and development, focusing particularly on the 1992 United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro. It was the final event of a day-long symposium sponsored by the Kennedy School Energy and Environment Student Interest Group and the International Development Interest Group...
...Border Patrol thinks Operation Desert Storm may explain why the number of Latin Americans caught trying to cross the border from Mexico declined dramatically in late January. In Laredo and Del Rio, Texas, border arrests were down as much as 40%, compared with the same month a year ago. Arrests in Yuma, Ariz., decreased 30%. Immigration officials say Mexico is rife with rumors that the U.S. government is drafting illegal aliens and shipping them off to fight in the war. The prospect of combat hasn't deterred some Mexican nationals already living in the U.S., however, from trying to join...
While there is much talk about their political meddling and impact, most Evangelicals appear to succeed because they usually preach a purely spiritual message. Henrique Mafra Caldeira de Andrada, head of the Protestant program at Rio's Institute of Religious Studies, thinks Catholic advocates of the social gospel failed to realize that "these people were hungry for more than just food. The Evangelicals met the peoples' emotional and spiritual needs better." Or, as Brazil's top Baptist, the Rev. Nilson Fanini, puts the paradox, "The Catholic Church opted for the poor, but the poor opted for the Evangelicals...