Word: cashews
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MOZAMBIQUE. Pop. 9,300,000. Independent (from Portugal) since June 1975. One-party Communist-socialist regime. Literacy: 7%. Per capita G.N.P.: $200. Exports: cashew nuts, sugar, cotton. Economy was hurt by the ten-year preindependence guerrilla war, which was followed by a flight of skilled whites and imposition of doctrinaire socialism. The country is heavily dependent upon transit trade with South Africa and $120 million a year in wage remittances from Mozambicans employed in its mines...
...vignettes is called "The Great Filling Station Holdup." Before Dylan satirized outlaw myths in "Joey," Buffett was already sick of them--he sings about being an unwilling accomplice in a robbery that netted "fifteen dollars and a can of STP/A big ole jar of cashew nuts and a Japanese T.V." Then, while he and his buddy are getting drunk on the money, a sheriff comes, He roughed us, then he cuffed us, And he took us off to jail. No picture on a poster, no reward, and no bail...
...Portuguese depart, both manufacturing and agriculture have sagged. Crop levels this year for tea, tobacco, cotton and cashew nuts have dropped sharply. At the port cities of Nacala, Beira and Lourenço Marques, efficiency is down 80% and pilferage has doubled in the past year. "What worries me," said a black civil servant, "is that Machel doesn't, seem to care if the standard of living falls here. In fact I think it fits in with his Maoist ideas. Maybe the camaradas [comrades] will take it in the countryside, but sooner or later he will have an urban...
Meanwhile, the Tanzanian economy is sorely beset by failing crops, worldwide inflation and soaring petroleum costs. Because the government paid such low prices for basic agricultural commodities, farmers last year smuggled more than $50 million worth of sisal, cattle, cotton, cashew nuts and corn across the border into neighboring Kenya, where prices were higher, thereby depriving Tanzania of vital foreign exchange. The country's hard currency reserves, in fact, have fallen from over $100 million a year ago to only $11 million at present...
...Levy-Shea offers not only a 30-minute yoga session but also a low-calorie lunch (sample menu: organic apple juice, four raw string beans, tomato wedges, sliced cucumber, green pepper, celery, radish, figs, unsalted cashew nuts and a slice of Russian black bread with a hunk of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese). Regular yoga conditioning, says Levy, "reduces colds and other respiratory problems. People say they have fewer headaches and sleep sounder." It also-Masters and Johnson, please note -improves one's sex life. Sex? Well, explains Levy, "you have fewer tensions, you're relaxed, and you learn...