Word: cottoned
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...York's Empire State Development Corporation, which dispenses tax breaks to recruit and retain big businesses. The state agency recently kicked in $26 million to a $99 million war chest that New York City hopes will keep both the Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange and the New York Cotton Exchange from moving to New Jersey with their 5,000 jobs...
...this week with the signing by President Clinton of the landmark Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act (fair). Touted as the most ambitious effort to bring free enterprise to the farm in more than half a century, the overhaul slashes price supports for staples from wheat to cotton. No crop was to be spared the scythe of reform...
...writers, actors and producers who must do their sponsors' bidding feel used? Not necessarily. Carvey says the parody- as-plug idea was his. "It was just kind of boring to call it The Dana Carvey Show," he says. "The idea came off of sports shows like the Doritos Cotton Bowl." Actually, it was the Mobil Cotton Bowl, so maybe in-show product placement isn't as effective as advertisers hope. At any rate, Carvey isn't quite the "whore" his show alleges. Though Pepsico pays ABC extra for the special treatment, "if they were paying me more, I wouldn...
...vote, the far-reaching House- Senate compromise plan is expected to win House approval before Congress leaves for a two-week recess March 30. Although President Clinton says he has some reservations about the bill, he is expected to sign it. The measure would wean wheat, corn and cotton farmers off the current system of crop supports by replacing it with a seven- year program of declining, fixed payments. "This bill, for all of the huffing and puffing of those who support it, basically pulls the safety net out from under family farmers," said North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan...
...that the conference committee could spend many weeks hammering out the details. In an effort to work out one difference in advance, House members killed legislation that would have greatly benefited dairy farmers by requiring that milk be thickened with dairy solids. The bill would wean wheat, corn and cotton farmers off the current system of crop supports by replacing it with a seven-year program of declining, fixed payments. Subsidies of peanuts and sugar remain in place, to the chagrin of some members on both sides of the aisle. "If the bill were to play out as advertised...