Ex-wives Club.THE ENEMIES OF SAO Sa´o n. 1. (Zool.) Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinæcia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture. PAULO POLITICIAN CELSO PITTA recruited a valuable ally when ex-wife Nicea Camargo testified that the paulistano mayor had broken a few laws--including bribing more than 30 city council members with US$1 million to foil a past impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. process against Pitta pitta (pĭt`ə), name used to refer to a genus (Pitta) of small, plump, brightly colored birds. The genus, including some twenty-three species, constitutes the whole of the family Pittidae. . Camargo, who uses her maiden name now, isn't just putting it to her ex-spouse. She also says Brazilian Senate President Antonio Carlos Megalh[tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. {a}]es, one of the most powerful men in the country, threatened Pitta into paying funds owed to a major Brazilian construction company for municipal work. Further, she claims former Senator Gilberto Miranda used his influence to exempt Pitta from a municipal bond scandal investigation in 1998. Camargo joins a circle of Latin America power wives who have turned tattletale in recent years. Peru's Alberto Fujimori dodged corruption accusations from his ex-wife Susana Higuchi. And former Argentine President Carlos Menem, whose especially messy home life prompted him to lock his family out of the Casa Rosada, weathered accusations by then-wife Zulema Yoma that he governed surrounded by "mafiosos." Camargo's efforts, however, cover greater ground. She's also incriminating in·crim·i·nate tr.v. in·crim·i·nat·ed, in·crim·i·nat·ing, in·crim·i·nates 1. To accuse of a crime or other wrongful act. 2. scores of lower-level officials in the Pitta administration. Some of Pitta's city council buddies are trying to counter with their own probe into her conduct when she ran a city social support program. Pitta's reaction? His wife is suffering a mental disorder mental disorder Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g. . The spousal spate not only endangers Pitta's political aspirations but it threatens plans to refinance the city's multibillion-dollar debt. Since Sao Paulo's economic picture often frames that of the rest of the country, this marital mess could mean more than simply the fall of the house of Pitta. |
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