Word: caning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dick. After midnight, Mayor Manuel finally ordered a widespread evacuation, but by that time it was impossible for people to drive across the bridges leading to the mainland. Hundreds headed instead for the three Red Cross shelters. Said Cora Handy, 73, as she walked with the help of her cane through a shelter at a local school: "I just couldn't see that I could stay in my house, so I left. I was still trembling when I got here...
Only 121 million acres, or about 10% of Brazil's arable land, is used to grow crops. Over the next three years, the Brazilians hope to plant 2.5 million more acres with wheat, sugar cane, soybeans, rice, vegetables and fruit. Tens of thousands of poor farmers are moving into the fertile but undeveloped cerrados savannah region in the central plateau. In one area, the government is giving away 1,250 acres to each of 150 homesteaders...
...scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered this kind of crisis...
...enough for easy reference. The servants in particular benefit from the chance to present more than awkward carbon copies of the principals: John Bottoms as Mr. Snake displays: diabolical shuffle and sneer, while the faithful retainer Rowley (Richard Spore) has been so sharply characterized--his hands, legs, voice and cane tremble constantly--that at times he is barely comprehensible...
More and more Caribbean nations are tearing up irreplaceable rain forests to plant such export crops as bananas, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee and cacao. On the sea, tankers, carrying oil from Venezuela and more distant shores, crisscross the Caribbean; as much as half of the U.S.'s imported oil comes through these crowded sea arteries, many of them leading through dangerous, narrow straits...