Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limited program, recent reports of the progress of the draft Executive order indicate that coverage, which in earlier drafts had applied to all farmlands in use, would not extend to coconut and sugarcane areas--that is, to roughly 30 percent of all agricultural lands. Such a provision would doubtless reduce resistance from landowners affected; but for the farmers, nothing would be solved...
Aquino's government has also instituted a version of Reaganomic tax reform. The top tax rate has been cut from 60% to 35%, while a broad range of special exemptions has been eliminated. In the same egalitarian vein, the country's sugar and coconut monopolies, long in the hands of Marcos cronies, have been disbanded. The world price paid for copra, or coconut meat, has increased 250% in the past year; thanks to trust busting, money that once went to monopolists now goes to farmers. In the effort to purge Marcos-style cronyism from the economy, scores of nonperforming public...
Back at the stove, Fussell provides wise and workable recipes for items as various as cornfield peas and coconut rice, Owendaw hominy bread, chocolate crunch cookies and sweet and sour Christmas fish. And she provides enough lore to divert the amateur; if history is your dish, this is your book...
Emack's sells nine different sorts of hand-dipped waffle cones, and customers can get everything from cones dipped in chocolate and oreo bits to ones dipped in chocolate and toasted coconut. Wolf says about 25 percent of the store's customers purchase dipped cones--paying up to an extra $1.15 for the privilege, depending on what the cone is dipped in. Chocolate heath cones are the most popular, Wolf adds...
...site is postcard pretty: a turquoise ocean washes against a black sand beach rimmed by coconut trees. The perfect spot for a resort complex, complete with a 130-room hotel, bungalows, convention center and gambling casino. That planned capitalist paradise is on the Pacific coast of Marxist- led Nicaragua. The war-torn nation wants to build the resort to attract tourists from the U.S. and Canada and raise badly needed cash...