Word: sao
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Other alternative fuels are gaining popularity around the world. In smog- choked Sao Paulo, Brazilian drivers tank up with an ethanol blend that is 78% gasoline and 22% alcohol distilled from sugarcane. According to Illinois- based Archer Daniels Midland, ethanol blends account for 8% of all U.S. motor fuel. The mixture is readily available in parts of the Midwest at stations that display the gasohol symbol, an ear of corn...
...Naji Robert Nahas, who alone accounted for nearly half of the market's trades in recent weeks, brought Brazil's bulls to a halt last week after several brokerage houses discovered that $31 million of his checks had bounced on them. To avoid a bearish stampede, the Rio and Sao Paulo markets were forced to close last Monday. When trading resumed the next day, the benchmark I.B.V. index plunged 9% and ended the week down 32%. Nahas is a past master of shady finance: three years ago the U.S. Government fined him $250,000 for his role in manipulating silver...
While the scientific community still argues over the validity of independent fusion confirmations at Brigham Young University and Sao Paulo University in Brazil, it seems certain that widespread adoption of fusion technology would significantly loosen the stranglehold oil producing nations have over other industrial countries...
...researchers at the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research at Sao Paulo University in Brazil announced at a press conference two days ago that they had measured neutron emission at twice normal background levels, which stands in sharp contrast to the much higher levels reported by the Italian group...
After Whipple retired and gained emeritus status in 1973, the HCO and SAO formally joined to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field took the helm at the center's 60 Garden St. offices, where the SAO and HCO are jointly housed...