• Mr Pitta's main project, to cut congestion with a sort of souped-up trolleybus, has yet to get going.

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  • The mayor of Sao Paulo, Celso Pitta, this year fought off efforts to impeach him over fraud allegations.

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  • The pitta bread they are given by an Islamic charity is their staple.

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  • Other non-household-name Ravens may get a look, like Marshal Yanda and Dennis Pitta.

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  • Flacco threw red-zone touchdown passes in the first half -- the first to Anquan Boldin and another to Dennis Pitta.

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  • She is likely to face a run-off, on October 29th, perhaps against Paulo Maluf, a veteran conservative who was Mr Pitta's predecessor and mentor.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • But the scandals have already helped the two main opposition candidates, both women from the centre-left, whose opinion-poll ratings have been bolstered by Mrs Pitta's accusations.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • "Oh my goodness, I mean, we had a ton of momentum...then the power goes out for what felt like an hour, " Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta said.

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  • The bribes inquiry owes much of its vigour to a quarrel between Mr Maluf and Celso Pitta, a former disciple whom he helped to get elected as mayor in his place.

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  • But they remain cronies, claim opponents among them Mrs Pitta, who has herself been accused of benefiting from a padded contract to supply the city government with frozen chicken (all above board, she said).

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • The Ravens, because they can attack in base two TE personnel, or play Pitta and leave in FB hammer Leach, are uniquely positioned to deal with the Niners pass rushers off the edges.

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  • Mr Pitta's own rating has slumped to zero.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • But his success in 1996 in getting Celso Pitta, his nominee, elected mayor in his stead boomeranged: having bequeathed him an empty treasury, Mr Maluf has felt compelled to apologise for Mr Pitta's poor record.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • He bequeathed Mr Pitta a bankrupt treasury.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • After failing to win Brazil's presidency as the dictatorship's nominee, Mr Maluf staged a comeback, first by winning election as Sao Paulo's mayor and then, in 1996, by securing victory for Mr Pitta, the accountant at his family firm and his handpicked successor.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

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