Questões de Inglês

Nike: A Model of Success?

In the 1990s, Nike came under fire for the rock-bottom wages, abusive conditions and use of child labor at its overseas factories. Sales plummeted as angry customers held protests and boycotts. If Nike wanted to stay in business, it had to make big changes-and it did. Nike took stock of its behavior and today it has a team that monitors conditions in its factories. Inspection reports are made public online. Nike was also one of the first companies to publish the names and adresses of every overseas factory that makes its products.

Scholastic Magazine, September 2015

Nike reassed its way of:

Two dead after Rio de Janeiro bike lane, built ahead of Olympics, collapses

April 21^st -2016

Part of an elevated bike lane built ahead of the Olympic Games collapsed on Thursday, killing at least two people who were on it when cement gave way and crashed onto the beach below.

Rio is hosting the Summer Games beginning in August and the bike lane was among the projects built in preparation. While no Olympic event will be held on the path, the collapse will likely add to worries about the country´s readiness to host the games.

Since its inauguration the path has earned kudos for its spectacular views. But detractors complained it was dangerous, saying the narrowness of the path made cyclists prime targets for mugging in the weeks after it opened, local newspapers also featured photos of its speedy deterioration, showing missing handrails and rusting metal parts.

The Associated Press, 2016

The bike path collapse will probably:

The Rio Olympics could be the next Victim of Brazil’s Corruption Scandal

The criminal probe, the biggest in Brazil’s history, centers on a cartel of construction companies who bribed officials and politicians for overpriced public contracts, such as with state oil giant Petrobras.

Time, World Brazil-March 2016

It is stated in the text that politicians and officials were illegally:

Corruption

  Corruption is drawing a lot of attention worldwide. The paper surveys and discusses issues related to the causes, consequences, and scope of corruption and possible corrective actions. It emphasizes the costs of corruption in terms of economic growth. It also emphasizes that the fight against corruption may be costly and cannot be independent from the reform of the state. If certain reforms are not made, corruption is likely to continue to be a problem regardless of actions directly aimed at curtailing it.

(https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/wp9863.pdf)

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If pollution doesn’t ruin Brazil’s Olympics, will the political drama?

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Come to Brazil! Land of Zika, political chaos, spiking inflation, a plummeting economy, and riotous protests.

It has not exactly been a great marketing campaign for South America’s largest country, which will host the summer Olympic Games in just four months. And after the recent political circus, those planning to attend the games could be forgiven for wondering if Brazil is about to fall apart at the seams.

Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, is in increasing danger of being impeached. Her attempt to install her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in her cabinet was blocked by a judge, who says it’s an illegal attempt to protect the former leader from criminal investigations. Dozens of the nation’s top politicians and businessmen are being investigated or have been arrested or jailed. Meanwhile, the health care system is under strain as physicians study birth defect cases that may be linked to the Zika virus. It’s a real mess.

But there’s no need to panic. Despite the multiple crises raining down on the country, its key institutions — the political system, military and economy — should survive intact and could even emerge stronger, say several analysts who watch the world’s fifth most populous country.

( http://www.globalpost.com/articles )

The following sentence: ”Despite the multiple crisis raining down on the country, its key institutions should survive intact and could emerge even stronger.”, can be rephrased as:

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