Word: blip
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...that said, pomegranate exports this year will bring in about $1 million for Afghanistan, a blip compared to the more than $1 billion that poppies will earn. Stoddard says that farmers who manage to export their fruit can make as much as poppy farmers per acre - around $1,600 to $2,000 per year. The problem is that most farmers are not selling for export, and earn just a few hundred dollars per acre a year from fruit. That keeps poppies looking pretty attractive...
...Follow My Lead”). This is the only track on the album that could be seen as a blatant attempt at a pop hit, and may prevent the albums more tasteful listeners from hearing the disc all the way through. Despite that blip, though, “Free at Last” is a strong album, worthy of attention, praise, and repeated listenings. It, along with its juggernaut siblings—Jay-Z’s “American Gangster” and Kanye West’s “Graduation?...
...Contrasts Gallery A pioneer of the city's gallery scene, Contrasts, www.contrastsgallery.com, was opened in 1992, just three years after government clampdowns on avant-garde artists (and that little blip at Tiananmen Square). It's owned and run by the Hong Kong-born entrepreneur, Pearl Lam. Her aim is to celebrate the best in Chinese modern art while exploring its relationship with 5,000 years of the country's artistic tradition. You can see some of the hottest names there - Sun Liang, Yang Bo, Chen Yun, Shao Fan and Hu Youben among them. Classy, collectible stuff - if you're rich...
Meet the American consumer of late 2007. Sure, he's worried. Apart from a brief blip after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the University of Michigan's much watched Index of Consumer Sentiment hasn't been this low since 1992. But buying stuff is what we Americans do. The last outright decline in consumer spending came in 1991, and that was shallow and short-lived. Most indications are that this year's Christmas shopping season will be, if not exactly a blowout, better than the last...
...with a grin. “It’s a conceptual outfit.” An hour later, Morton is at the cash register with her finds—a fur coat, a gray vest, and a pair of black leather ankle boots (for herself). After a minor blip involving receipts, she’s on her way back to Harvard for a film screening. “I’ll probably start working at ten or eleven,” she says. “It shouldn’t take too long since...