Word: rios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through America's porous Southwestern border: so-called killer bees. Last week the Department of Agriculture spotted the first incursion on U.S. soil of Africanized bees, originally imported to Brazil from Africa in 1957 for a breeding experiment. All the bees were trapped east of Hidalgo in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and promptly destroyed...
...nearly halting business as well. In the process, he has angered Big Business, alienated much of the middle class, and invited the risk of a major recession. He has also provoked the wrath of Big Labor, as evidenced last week by strikes at a state-run steel plant outside Rio de Janeiro and at the main Ford auto factory near Sao Paulo. Now Collor must scramble to reaffirm his popular mandate, while at the same time staving off public demands to push his rigorous program off track. Can he do it? Warns Brazilian political scientist Walter de Goes: "The speciality...
...increasingly irate middle-class Brazilians who would not gain access to their money until September 1991. "The feeling was that ((Collor and his government)) did something very dramatic, and then they simply blew it off through bad management," says economist Edmar Bacha of the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio. "That gave the impression that the rich got away with it again." The meltdown of the program rekindled inflation, which more than tripled to a rate of 12.9% last month. That set off new price hikes, which led workers to demand salary increases and wage indexation...
...thing few dare to call him is Fernando; the President dislikes being addressed by his first name. Collor, says his chief of staff, Marcos Coimbra, "is secure, responsible, determined." Others charge that Collor is too autocratic. Says Herbert de Souza, who runs a left-wing think , tank in Rio: "He's like a doctor who tells us he's going to cause us the maximum pain and suffering, but it's for our own good...
...Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...