Frustrated by a decade of economic stagnation, Brazil's 82 million voters will now decide the path the Western world's eighth-largest economy will take in the 1990's.

The United Kingdom is a developed country and has the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and eighth-largest economy by purchasing power parity.

Brazil, the eighth-largest economy in the world, is the locomotive for Latin economies, which now absorb a fifth of United States exports.

By 1980, California became recognized as the world's eighth-largest economy.

Although Brazil is home to the world's eighth-largest economy, it is hobbled by widespread poverty and unequal distribution of wealth.

Encompassing $304 billion, the Atlanta metropolitan area is the eighth-largest economy in the country and 17th-largest in the world.

Mr. Herrmann points out that, standing alone, California would rank as the world's eighth-largest economy and its fourth-largest stock market.

Levels of education, literacy and public health are all shockingly low for the world's eighth-largest economy.

The country is blessed with astonishing natural and human resources and already has the world's eighth-largest capitalist economy.

The obvious candidate is California, a state that has the eighth-largest economy in the world.