Word: coppering
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...over El Paso has been smudged black from smokestacks belonging to the American Smelting & Refining Company. El Pasoans sneezed and coughed, but the belchings seemed a necessary nuisance to most people-and particularly to the plant's 750 workers, largely Mexicans, who earned their livelihood by smelting copper and lead...
...Daddy, Daddy, that copper beat me! He tried to kill...
...Yellow copper beating up my boy? I'll kill...
...problems, which he characteristically blames on the "corruption" of Obote's regime. In fact, Amin has turned a blind eye to military spending and has allowed the army to run up mammoth bills on guns, trucks and other expensive hardware. Uganda has substantial untapped resources of iron and copper, but agriculture is the principal business. Crop prices (principally for coffee, cotton and tea) have not kept pace with inflationary living costs, and last year Uganda's foreign exchange reserves fell from $44.8 million to $25 million. To help the faltering economy, Amin was forced to borrow ?10 million...
...agricultural production has plummeted, partly because of illegal land seizures by wandering bands of armed peasants. Chile's net capital reserves dropped from $343 million in 1970 to $45 million at the end of 1971. The explanation was a disastrous fall in world-market prices for copper, Chile's main export, and loss of credit as Allende has nationalized foreign-owned companies...