Having built up a consumer-finance business, last year it bought Meridional, a state-owned bank in southern Brazil.

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What they still don't know is how that freshwater will affect the circulation in the Atlantic, especially what's called the meridional overturning circulation.

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Galloway y Ayrshire meridional (Reino Unido) .

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