91.   As those markets shrink in a global economic crisis, Brazilians are learning that only the best will survive.

92.   Banks were severely crippled when the country succumbed to global financial crisis last August.

93.   Brazil has been a major casualty of the global economic crisis, buffeted by loss of investor confidence and a strong outflow of capital.

94.   Brazil has been a major casualty of the global economic crisis, marked by loss of investor confidence and strong outflow of capital.

95.   Brazil has been whipsawed by the global financial crisis that began more than a year ago in Southeast Asia.

96.   Brazil is a victim of the global financial crisis that began last year in Asia and shifted to Russia before moving here.

97.   Brazil is caught up in the global financial crisis that began last year in Asia and shifted to Russia before spreading here.

98.   Bush was expected to come out guns blazing, but instead launched a diplomatic offensive which may point to the solution and resolution of this global crisis.

99.   But economists are not looking for that pattern to be repeated now that the global crisis has jumped to Brazil.

100.   But the cut would not save the economy single-handedly, with the global financial crisis far from over, said Julian Jessop, economist at Nikko Europe.