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...expected, the first-round leader was the crusading center-rightist * Fernando Collor de Mello, a former state governor. At week's end, two candidates who split the leftist vote were deadlocked for the second slot: Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Leonel Brizola...
...seniors Cathey Pierre-Louis, Theresa Mello and Barbara Esposito constantly frustrated Schossberger and the other Harvard hitters in the fourth set. Pierre-Louis spiked the Crimson with some strong kills as her team broke out to a 7-0 lead...
...forest exploitation. Says Celio Valle, director of ecosystems at the government's newly created environmental agency: "Before, we used to consider Brazilian environmental groups as the enemy, but now we consider them allies." Amazonian development may become a significant issue in this fall's presidential campaign. Fernando Collor de Mello, a member of the conservative National Reconstruction Party and a leading candidate to succeed Sarney, has said he believes in preserving the forests, though critics doubt his sincerity...
...workers, of course, have suffered losses. Among those who have, the rollbacks may involve nonwage items, ranging from lost vacation time to shrunken health benefits. But a pay reduction remains the unkindest cut. Buffy Mello, 34, a divorced mother of three, dreads the arrival of next March because she is among 950 workers at the USS-POSCO steel mill in Pittsburg, Calif., who will suffer a 4.5% pay reduction at that time. For Mello, a junior-grade electrician, the change will reduce her wages from $14.37 an hour to about $13.73, a difference of $108 a month. Other workers elsewhere...
...founders say that they can tell chicken wing gourmets from novices. "The connoiseurs order suicide [extra-hot] wings. We make those special to order," Mello says. "We had one guy who ordered 100 pounds of suicide wings for him and four of his friends," he adds. "They had a contest to see who could eat the most. And they ordered 10 pounds of ice cream to go down with...