CVRD, Brazil's giant iron-ore miner, and other investors to develop a new slab plant on Brazil's north-east coast.
Brazil's first working-class president, a favorite with Brazil's poorer voters, promised clean government and a fairer distribution of wealth.
As Brazil's largest pay-TV provider and a big hitter in phone services and Internet access, NETC is a play on Brazil's growing middle class.
As Brazil's leading petrochemical firm, Braskem(BAK, 13) has at least several exciting years ahead from Brazil's internal growth and from its ability to sell throughout South America.
With the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Brazil's horizon, Brazil's billionaires seem to have many reasons to remain optimistic about the future of their country.
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Brazil's Roman Catholic Church had argued against the decision to allow civil unions, saying the only union referred to within Brazil's constitution was that between a man and a woman.
That would have one beneficial effect, by discouraging the inflows of short-term foreign capital that have pushed up the value of Brazil's currency, the real, thereby making Brazil's exports less competitive.
But Luiz Felipe Lampreia, Brazil's foreign minister, says that Mr Fujimori at first misinterpreted Brazil's attempt at more subtle diplomacy as a signal that he had been let off the hook.
America charges an average tariff of 46% on Brazil's top 15 exports to the world as a whole, whereas Brazil's average tariff on their American equivalents is just 14%, according to Rubens Barbosa, Brazil's ambassador in Washington.
Only in two of Brazil's 27 states does Mr da Silva stand a chance of outpolling Mr Cardoso: in Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, the historical homes of trabalhismo (labourism), the ideology built by Getulio Vargas, Brazil's modernising mid-century dictator.
Such developments reflect, too, a generational change in Brazil's highly professional foreign service: older diplomats, who worked during the cold war and Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship, are giving way to younger ones, who feel that the world's ninth-largest economy should be less shy of flexing its democratic muscles.
Beijing has become Brazil's top economic partner, just as Brazil has emerged as the world's sixth-largest economy, bigger than the UK., Russia or Canada.
As a share of GDP, South Korea's military spending is bigger than China's, Japan's and Brazil's.
That means India's and Brazil's private banks, although smaller than China's, may have an easier time expanding abroad.
Argentina's and Brazil's are both down by a quarter from their highs.
The complex deepwater drilling recently perfected by Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled company, has suddenly raised the prospect of Brazil becoming one of the world's biggest producers.
More controversial is the programme's assumption that Brazil's external accounts can improve much without a devaluation.
Tuesday's resolution by Brazil's National Council of Justice was based on a 2011 Supreme Court ruling that recognised same-sex civil unions.
Greenpeace's Indradi says Brazil's strong point has been to implement better forest governance, backed up with good monitoring and serious law enforcement.
First among those competitors is InBev, the world's biggest brewer by volume since it was formed last year when Belgium's Interbrew bought Brazil's AmBev.
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Tuesday night's crash, Brazil's second major air disaster in less than a year, killed all 186 people on the plane and three others on the ground.
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Yet without Mputu, the team has made it to the Club World Cup final, beating Mexico's Pachuca and Brazil's Internacional along the way, without conceding a goal.
Bosnia's Dzeko and Brazil's Grafite have scored 54 goals between them this season to break the previous record set by Bayern Munich's Gerd Muller and Uli Hoeness in the 1970s.
India is exporting a corporate form which owes as much to South Korea's chaebol, Japan's keiretsu and Brazil's barons as it does to a current American or European ideal of the firm.
VLJs, including America's Cessna and Brazil's Embraer.
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Vettel, who sits third behind England's Button and Brazil's Barrichello in the drivers' championship, was forced to end his opening session early after smoke came from his car, but he finished sixth, 0.604secs off the pace, in the afternoon.
This was launched in 1994 while Mr Cardoso was finance minister during Mr Franco's lacklustre stint as Brazil's caretaker president.
But this also means that Petrobras's borrowing counts towards Brazil's public-sector debt, which the government, under its deal with the International Monetary Fund, must curb.
In the interim, the government had included the area in an oil and gas concession now held by a consortium involving Canada's Talisman Energy, Brazil's Petrobras and Spain's Repsol.
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