Brazil's tourism board says it has officially toldFIFA and hotel operators to negotiate lowering prices during the 2014 World Cup.
The request comes just days after a study showed that room rates will be up to 500 percent more expensive during the World Cupin some hotels offered by the FIFA-appointed agency MATCH Services.
The tourism board says MATCH and the hotels need to find a way to reverse the"stratospheric increase" of rates announced for theBrazil's tourism board says it has officially toldFIFA and hotel operators to negotiate lowering prices during the 2014 World Cup.
The request comes just days after a study showed that room rates will be up to 500 percent more expensive during the World Cupin some hotels offered by the FIFA-appointed agency MATCH Services.
The tourism board says MATCH and the hotels need to find a way to reverse the"stratospheric increase" of rates announced for the World Cup period next year.
MATCH said Tuesday it has not yet received the request, but would "welcome any attemptthe government would make to help us lowerprices and would fully support such initiatives World Cup period next year Tuesday it has not yet received the request, but would "welcome any attemptthe government would make to help us lowerprices and would fully support such initiativesLinda Ronstadt says she suffers from Parkinson's disease, which has robbed her ability to sing.
The 67-year-old music legend tells AARP Magazine, in an article posted online Friday, that she was diagnosed eight months ago and "can't sing a note."
Ronstadt says she began to show symptoms as long as eight years ago, but attributed her inability to sing then to a tick disease. When her hands began to tremble, Ronstadt said she thought the shaking was the result of a shoulder operation.
She said she was "completely shocked" when she finally saw a neurologist and was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. "I wouldn't have suspected that in a million, billion years.
"No one can sing with Parkinson's disease," Ronstadt told AARP music writer Alanna Nash."No matter how hard you try."
Ronstadt sold tens of millions of records starting in the 1970s with pop hits like"You're No Good" and "When Will I Be Loved." But she also segued into country, pop standards an