Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even lack of water does not stop the determined. The town of Williamsburg, Iowa, staged a beach party last month when organizers trucked in 3 million lbs. of sand and declared that the pile was No-Wa-Wa Beach. Amid the tall corn, frolickers in bright trunks and coconut-shell bikinis played volleyball and rode around in convertibles. "It's easy for states that have oceans to have beach parties," says Organizer Steve Gander. "But in the middle of Iowa, we have to try a little harder...
Many companies have introduced competitors based on other alcoholic beverages. Detroit's Stroh Brewery produces White Mountain, a cooler made from malt and flavorings. Champale makes a similarly derived cooler in pineapple- coconut and three other varieties. The crowding has already produced the beginnings of a shake-out, which prompted Coors brewery to yank its Colorado Chiller off the market last February...
...activities "to allow private business to become the prime mover of growth." Scheduled for sale are more than $6 billion worth of assets in idled companies, many of them abandoned to bankruptcy by Marcos or his cronies. Also to be sold are tens of millions of dollars in sugar, coconut and banana plantations that Marcos or his friends controlled...
...reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men. So too, when the state of nature is disordered, do they often portend the same upset in the nature of the state. It therefore seemed a distinctly Shakespearean augury when Typhoon Gading drowned Manila in torrential rains last week, sending coconut trees swaying wildly in the wind and plunging much of the city deep into darkness. For in recent weeks, tremors and uncertainties have had all of Philippine politics listing between tragedy and comedy, swept up in a whirlwind of coups rumored, imagined and aborted...
Aquino's economic program is strongly oriented toward the free market. She has pledged to dismantle the sugar and coconut monopolies operated by Marcos cronies, reduce regressive fuel and electricity taxes, and do away with seed and fertilizer levies that hamper agricultural diversification. She has said she will try to negotiate better repayment terms for the foreign debt in the hope that export earnings will be freed to stimulate growth. Not surprisingly, businessmen were among her most ardent backers, and Aquino's economic policies are certain to retain a pro-private enterprise tilt...