POWER CRUNCH.Brazilians This is a list of well known Brazilians (by nationality or citizenship), ordered alphabetically within categories: Actors
adj. 1. Unable to wait patiently or tolerate delay; restless. 2. Unable to endure irritation or opposition; intolerant: impatient of criticism. 3. over the country's energy crisis. The government's severe electricity-rationing has local industry complaining about production setbacks at the same time it has sparked violent clashes between protestors and police outside Brazil's Congress. Even as the government debated policies to meet energy demands, severe drought drought, abnormally long period of insufficient rainfall. Drought cannot be defined in terms of inches of rainfall or number of days without rain, since it is determined by such variable factors as the distribution in time and area of precipitation during and before crippled crip·ple n. 1. A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple. 2. A damaged or defective object or device. tr.v. hydroelectric plants, which account for around 90% of Brazil's electricity. Brazil's energy authority has sold licenses North more than US$1 billion to build and operate eight hydroelectric plants in six Brazilian states. But the move isn't going to bring a quick end to the power-less situation. |
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