Word: senhor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prices and wages spiral out of control, business strategy is virtually paralyzed. Says Thomas Michael Lanz, director of a Sao Paulo electronic-tools company: "We are all lost. We can't plan, we can't set prices, we can't decide whether to hire or fire." Senhor, the widely read Sao Paulo-based business magazine, put an upside-down map of Brazil on its cover last week with the headline GENERAL CONFUSION...
...small, cattle-raising town of Monsenhor Tabosa, 1,000 people from the countryside recently sacked a school commissary when the local mayor began distributing rice, beans and flour. Under similar circumstances, 400 angry villagers stormed the local mayor's office in the remote western town of Senhor Pompeu. So far the Brazilian government has spent $800 million to build dams, aqueducts and wells, while trying to create jobs for 600,000 victims. It has tested new methods of planting and new crops. But until the rains return, little that is constructive can be done. Sums up one resident...