South American

• “Around the year 1540 Juan de Ayolas sighted this giant South American rodent, “a sort of waterboar, half hog, half hare.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “Unlike other regions, GRULAC has never worked out a satisfactory rotation among its subregions, which has led to enormous resentment from the smaller states about South American dominance and partially explains why Brazil, which has served nine two-year Council terms, is far from popular in UN matters in its own region.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender is not an Option

• “The later Columbian voyages added South American monkeys, peccaries, and the Hispaniolan hutias, a group of tree-climbing rodents that were ratlike without quite being rats.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “On the South American mainland, Darwin had seen two different yet closely related species of Rhea, those ostrichlike birds, both species occupying the plains of Patagonia.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “Ron Friedman compiled pertinent psychology literature; Uma Muhtu identified pertinent marketing literature; and Paula Appelbaum provided me with South American cases.”

  Simon & Schuster: Experiential Marketing

• “# Native races of South American = = small stature, nose projecting and straight, mesocephalic or dolichocephalic.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “The only hints toward her later destiny, at that time, were that she had grown up as a woods-loving tomboy in western New York state and that, during her first year in the urban jungle, she had adopted a South American monkey.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “The modern fight against malaria began with the discovery that powder made from the bark of the cinchona tree in the South American Andes was useful for treating fever.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Edge of Evolution

• “Steel magnate Navin Jindal is on a week-long visit to Bolivia to give a push to his plans of investing $ 2.1 billion in the next few years in mining and setting up an integrated 1.7 MTPA steel plant, a 6 MTPA sponge iron plant, a 10 MTPA iron ore pellet plant and a 450 mw power plant in the South American nation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Morning News Roundup

• “Tapestry, worn to threads at the corners, a part of a set that had gone with her parents many times abroad, on ships and trains, in Turkish cabs, South American buses, in a former gadabout life.”

  Simon & Schuster: Some Fun

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