Word: castor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve signs came to be identified with specific creatures (the Greek word zodiakos means "pertaining to animals") is obscure. Only two of the zodiacal signs bear any visible relation to actual arrangements of stars in the sky. One is Gemini (the Twins), which consists of two principal bright stars (Castor and Pollux) of almost equal magnitude. The other is Scorpio, with a grouping of 15 stars reminiscent of the stinging tail of that dangerous insect, common in the Middle East...
...Permian Basin petitioned the ICC in 1963 for approval to begin construction. Backers argued that their road would provide vital services for farmers and merchants in lonely West Texas. They argued that the line would show profits in only five years by hauling grain, sugar beets, iron ore, oil, castor beans, peaches, potatoes and cotton to Odessa and Seagraves for transshipment to major markets...
Cheeses & Castor Oil. But Soglo's downfall really began when he tried to do something about Dahomey's stagnant economy. Though it lacks any natural resources, the Pennsylvania-sized country has an overabundance of disgruntled intellectuals who once were civil servants in other nations of French West Africa but were booted out when those countries achieved independence. Soglo launched an austerity program that embittered his top-heavy government's 12,000 civil servants, who crowd the cafes of Dahomey's commercial capital, Cotonou. He cut salaries by 30%, froze recruitment and promotion in the civil service...
With such paltry exports as palm-tree products and castor oil, Dahomey cannot pay for the large quantities of French meats, wines, cheeses and "Gervais" ice cream that are normally among the prized imports of Dahomey's elite. Nor can its poor people, who live mostly in thatched huts or in bamboo huts set on stilts in muddy lagoons, afford the $3,000,000 presidential palace that its rulers have built, or the four-lane, sodium-lit boulevard that runs along Cotonou's seaside edge into an empty field of sand and weeds...
Altogether 115 Italian companies make appliances, but the bulk comes from six-Ignis, Zanussi, Zoppas, In-desit, Candy and Castor. Using newer, more automated plants than their competitors, the Italians ignore Europe's traditional luxury market to concentrate on a high volume of low-cost models for prospering workers. They cut heavily into the German washing-machine market by offering $250 washers v. the $375 lowest price for German machines. When the Germans stripped down their luxury models and reduced prices to match, the Italians cut their price...