Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garments have as firm a claim on the title of fashion classic as the polo shirt, or, as Ralph Lauren calls it, the Polo shirt. The exact origin of the knitted-cotton, soft-collar shirt with a floppy tail is unknown, but its widely recorded debut came in 1893, when it was worn by polo players at the swank Hurlingham Club, near Buenos Aires. Compared with traditional British polo wear of the era, the new tops were cooler and less restrictive. In 1920 one of Argentina's polo stars, Lewis Lacey, opened a sports shop in Buenos Aires, where...
...bowl of M&M's on a table in the reception room. Lauren's personal office contains some of his favorite props: a wood-burning fireplace, a fleet of toy racing cars, family photographs and piles of fabric swatches. He often wears a studiedly scruffy uniform: a cotton work shirt, faded Levi's and well-worn cowboy boots. "This is who I am," he claims...
...than it had before President Reagan ordered the firing of 11,438 striking controllers in 1981. Since many of the replacements are relatively inexperienced, they protectively, and prudently, tend to space out aircraft even beyond the recently tightened requirements, slowing movement. "The skies aren't crowded," insists William B. Cotton, manager of United's air-traffic system. "It's the air-traffic-control system that's crowded." The strain was compounded last week when 34 of the 238 air-traffic controllers at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Center at Palmdale were suspended from radar duty pending a probe...
...Boswell, a California company that is one of the largest U.S. producers of cotton, may collect nearly $20 million in subsidies this year, according to a preliminary estimate by the Sacramento office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), which administers subsidies for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Salyer American, a Corcoran, Calif., cotton producer, may collect more than $3 million. As huge as these payments sound, Boswell insists that it might not turn a profit without them. "It is ludicrous to believe that we will be sticking any Government money in our pockets," says Boswell Spokesman Walter Brown...
...wave that has baked the life out of the Southeast. Ten days of sauna-like temperatures of 100 degrees or more have exacerbated four months of drought, perhaps the worst dry spell in the region's history. So far, 15 people have died of heat prostration. Peanuts, hay and cotton have shriveled; the agricultural loss in Georgia is already estimated at $140 million. In North Carolina, some 200,000 chickens have died -- suffocated, in effect, by the hot, still air. It has been so blistering that thirsty wasps have been furiously stinging people to get the moisture of their perspiration...