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Volta Redonda

American  
[vawl-tah ri-dawn-dah] / ˈvɔl tɑ rɪˈdɔ̃ dɑ /

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.


Volta Redonda British  
/ ˈvɔltə rəˈdõdə /

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro state on the Paraíba River: founded in 1941; site of South America's largest steelworks. Pop: 419 000 (2005 est)

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Observes Volta Redonda Bishop Waldyr Calheiros de Novais: "The comunidades are the theology of liberation put into practice."

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They limited bank credit, froze steel prices at the government-owned Volta Redonda plant, and persuaded auto, truck and clothing manufacturers to hold the price line.

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Her great Volta Redonda steel plant�South America's largest�feeds off a quarter of the earth's known iron deposits, heavily concentrated in & around the fabulous "iron mountain" of Itabira.

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Now her goal is to revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio.

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But the $110 million Volta Redonda steel plant, five years abuilding, designed to make Brazil self-sufficient in steel, has yet to be inaugurated.

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