Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walter Mondale. This Democratic solidarity is due partly to the high proportion of black voters: 40% within Macon's city limits. More important, Macon's Democratic leaders have helped forge a coalition of blacks and blue- collar whites who vote together against the local aristocrats who own the cotton and soybean farms and run the banks and brokerages...
...told the Crimson, "You're not as good as you think you are, and went out and proved it. The Engineers took chances. Goalie Steve Duncan roamed far from his net to make saves and buy cotton candy for his friends in the stands. Graeme ("The Slam") Townshend played sheriff, backing Crimson players into the corner and reading them their rights...
...stripes. Says Barbara Kirk, a men's-furnishings buyer for the Seattle-based Nordstom stores: "A plain white shirt isn't just a plain white shirt anymore." Nor is it cheap: at Wilkes Bashford, the price can reach $235 for a French-cuff Charvet shirt, made of Sea Island cotton and imported from Paris...
Most inmates of the state penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., are run-of-the- mill, old-style cons. But a few may have switched to high-tech crime, diverting prison products for profit. When a trailerload of cotton rolled out of the pen, its weight seemed in good order on the institution's computer records. Yet two weeks ago it was discovered that when the cotton arrived at a nearby gin, it was light by more than 90,000 lbs. The missing cotton, worth $20,000, seems to have been shipped elsewhere...
Uzbekistan, one of the Soviet Union's 15 republics, is rich in cotton, fruit -- and corruption. According to Pravda and other publications, the republic's leading government and Communist Party officials shared in the embezzlement of $6.5 billion during the 1970s and early 1980s. They also permitted Mafia-style crime families to thrive on such supposedly capitalist rackets as drugs, prostitution, gambling and murder for hire. A number of officials helped themselves to the republic's cotton-growing revenues by overstating the size of the republic's cotton crops, then skimming off part of the proceeds. Among those recently arrested...