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...fact, now governs five of Brazil's states, as well as its largest city, S?o Paulo, which is Lula's home base - where the federal government's industrial privatization project has sent propane gas prices soaring, leaving many urban families cooking with wood. But can Lula manage Latin America's largest economy (and the world's ninth largest)? Though Wall Street's favorite sport right now is demonizing Lula - and his platform is, indeed, full of expensive, perhaps fiscally risky social programs - he insists that he's not out to wipe away the free-market reforms and fiscal discipline that...
...National government, however, will demand a nimble balancing act from the PT. Its support is based on promises of meaningful reforms aimed at developing a more responsive state, creating a stronger and broader domestic consumer base and strengthening Brazil's position in hemispheric affairs. But none of that will be possible by isolating Brazil from international investors, whose outlook may be more conditioned by the IMF orthodoxy of the recent past that has little sympathy for government spending on social programs to alleviate economic distress among the urban poor. Indeed, the socialist Lula's greatest challenge may lie in persuading...
...very low since it was a special election and focused his campaign efforts on area churches and their congregations. The tactic was effective because the people he appealed to were very responsive to the religious issues raised in the campaign. The church members became his “base voters” and he won the election by a strong margin...
...Communities that are becoming new host cities will get a better deal than communities that have hosted the University for 366 years,” Sullivan says. “I think there has to be some retroactivity as to how you base the PILOT...
...Harvard officials say the Watertown agreement represents a special case, since Harvard’s holdings constitute about one-third of that town’s tax base and were purchased in one fell swoop. An agreement like the 1990 deal would have had catastrophic effects on Watertown’s city budget...