Word: uruguay
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...some parts of the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Entre Rios visibility is near zero, as black clouds from some 300 simultaneous fires cover farmlands, population centres and the highways connecting Argentina with neighboring Paraguay and Brazil. The smoke has even crossed the border to Uruguay, where the capital city of Montevideo is now hazy with Argentine smoke...
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...rugged enough to function in often harsh conditions. Prototypes of the laptop (dubbed XO) - with built-in video and audio, a hand-crank and low wattage requirements - are getting high marks from technology reviewers. Some 8,000 units are up and running in pilot villages from Cambodia to Uruguay. But perhaps an even more difficult task was to generate enough mass interest in the project to allow the computer to be produced on such a vast scale that costs could be kept down. The program's chief education officer, Argentine neurology professor Antonio Battro, who accompanied Negroponte in Rome, says...
Poor nations have heard that before; some are not impressed. Trade, they say, needs to be a two-way street. However much a developing country orients its economy to the outside world, it needs others to buy its goods. At the Uruguay Round of trade talks, which concluded in 1993, the developing world was promised much greater access for its products to rich markets. But the reality has been disappointing...
This acquired knowledge and skill was evident during Akpan’s showing in the Round of 16 game against Uruguay, where the U.S. pulled out a close 2-1 win over their adversary. Achieving the victory might not have been possible without America’s Crimson representative, who applied pressure to a Uruguayan defender, causing an own goal and tying up the game...