Cardoso Pinto reduced the deficit with a penalty after White broke from a scrum early.
Rather, after eight years of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, it is uncertainty about what comes next.
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His main divergence from Mr Cardoso was caused by the strong real policy, abandoned in 1999.
If Mr Cardoso's coalition unites around a single candidate, it has every chance of victory.
It finally took another finance minister, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, to tame hyperinflation with his Real Plan.
It might sound far-fetched but young English inventor Giles Cardoso has already made it a reality.
Cardoso builds the flying machines, called the Parajet, in his barn in Dorset, southwest England.
Others are initiatives of Mr Cardoso's government, or have been pioneered at local level.
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PSDB's Sao Paulo wing, the first shot in the battle to succeed Mr Cardoso in 2002.
And, less tangibly, the political and intellectual base of Mr Cardoso's government is narrowed and diminished.
And he has scrapped earlier talk of defaulting on debts or reversing Mr Cardoso's privatisations.
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He was soon freed, but the damage to President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government was done.
For Mr Cardoso, and now for Brazil's poor, Mr Magalhaes is an ally to be feared.
On April 22nd, a distraught Mr Cardoso abandoned a barely begun state visit to Spain.
Some analysts fear he may now try to turn his conservative party against Mr Cardoso.
He had also threatened to reverse his earlier support for Mr Cardoso's fiscal plans.
But Mr Cardoso's austerity goals will demand an unusual degree of co-operation from them.
This irritated Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, the powerful Senate president and an often troublesome Cardoso ally.
Mr Cardoso and the world have also to keep a sharp eye on Congress.
As Senate president, he has been an important if volatile ally for Mr Cardoso.
Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist, has always questioned the myth of racial democracy.
Mr Cardoso, perhaps surprisingly, says yes, because many of his economic reforms are irreversible.
Mr Cardoso is waiting for his ministers to reach agreement on how far to go.
There is plenty for Mr Cardoso and Mr Menem, above all, to sort out.
But so far its voters seem to blame world financial markets, not Mr Cardoso.
Mr Cardoso has been a popular president, and has achieved much, for all Brazil's present difficulties.
That is slowly changing under Fernando Henrique Cardoso, its cosmopolitan and polyglot president since 1995.
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Mr Cardoso became deeply unpopular in the aftermath of Brazil's devaluation in January 1999.
With his credibility damaged and Congress distracted, Mr Cardoso's reform shortlist may have to be shortened further.
Though Ms Sarney has said little about policy, her party favours continuing Mr Cardoso's liberal economic reforms.
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