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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 around, cutting wasteful programs, renegotiating service contracts and declaring war on tax dodgers. By the time she left, the city's reserves were pumped up to $1.2 billion...
Marques' fiscal heroics made her a leading candidate to succeed Cesar Maia as Rio mayor in last October's elections, but she chose the steel-company job instead. Now her goal is to revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio. Marques is introducing new management policies--such as dividing the company into separate profit centers by product--that are virtually unknown to Brazil's insular corporate world. "If I don't watch out," she allows, "someone will start importing what I produce within three...
...gone the way of PEOPLE? Gates has become more insufferable than TV talk-show host Larry King. More boring than O.J. Simpson. More insupportable than the Newt Gingrich and the Clinton family scandals and improprieties. Please change the subject or face the desertion of readers like me. CARLOS ARAUJO Rio de Janeiro...
...husband in Rio de Janeiro in 1930, where she was working as a photographer. The couple married and moved to Paris, France, in 1936, where Rey worked as a freelance writer and her husband as an illustrator...
...RIO After years of songs for homesick Spaniards, they do the Macarena...