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PREDICTABLE "Chile is going through a very good time," says Ricardo Lagos Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (born March 2, 1938) is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006 . He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate , Chile's popular 58-year-old public works public works
pl.n.
Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public.

Noun 1. minister and one of the key members of the three-party, center-left coalition that has ruled Chile since 1990. "This is a solid economy, not one that depends on external flows, "he says, alluding to the model that failed Mexico and other countries when "hot money" fled after the December 1994 plunge The term Plunge has multiple meanings:

Plunge (American football), a play in American football
Plunge (Band), a band
The Plunge, a closed historic swim center in Richmond California
Plungė, a city in Lithuania.

of the peso. "Chile is the region's most dynamic and promising market," says a recent report from the U.S. Department of Commerce. "Its strength and attractiveness lies not in its size ... but in the transparency (1) The quality of being able to see through a material. The terms transparency and translucency are often used synonymously; however, transparent would technically mean "seeing through clear glass," while translucent would mean "seeing through frosted glass." See alpha blending. of its regulation, in the energy and professionalism of its entrepreneurs and in the predictability of its decision-makers."

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Title Annotation:	Ricardo Lagos on Chile's economic conditions
Publication:	Latin Trade
Article Type:	Brief article
Geographic Code:	3CHIL
Date:	Feb 1, 2006
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