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...ethnic groups, each of which speaks a different dialect. The miracle country is growing somewhat threadbare. Throughout most of the 1970s, the Ivory Coast enjoyed annual economic-growth rates of 6% to 7%, the most vibrant in former French West Africa. The trend has reversed since coffee and cocoa prices collapsed in the 1980s. High oil prices mean a gallon of gasoline sells at $5. From 1986 to 1989, export earnings dropped from $3.2 billion to $2.5 billion, while costs continued to rise. Total debt, $12 billion, rose from 37% of gross domestic product...
...most basic level, the treaty will roll back as many as 20,000 separate tariffs over the next 10 to 15 years. Currently those barriers average nearly 11% in Mexico, around 5% in Canada and less than 4% in the U.S. (though duties on products like cocoa, for example, go as high as 20% in Mexico; in Canada tequila is slapped with a 183% duty). More important will be the steps that NAFTA takes to diminish nontariff barriers, such as dairy and cotton quotas in the U.S. and Canada, and various import licenses in Mexico. By rapidly widening the consumer...
American Express has just turned his Gold Card into dross, their posh London hotel is pressing them to settle a steadily mounting bill, and the future of his cocoa futures is dim indeed; the beans are rotting on the docks somewhere in South America, the result of a highly inconvenient strike...
...evenings for the past six weeks sleeping beneath camouflage netting in a hole in the sand. Notes printed under his captions are the only way the experienced combat photographer can communicate with us. One note read, "Thanks for the candy bars. The unit loved them. Could you send some cocoa and a hot shower, please...
...Willan's book. You whip up a genache by pouring a boiled combination of butter and cream over chopped chocolate. Chill that and then roll into little balls and chill some more. Melt some more chocolate, dip the genache balls in the warm chocolate and roll them in powdered cocoa...