Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush underlined the U.S.'s insistence that Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri comply with International Monetary Fund reform proposals as a condition for receiving $200 million in aid. But in a gesture of good faith, he announced the release of $15 million to purchase fertilizer and insecticide for Sudan's cotton planting. At a U.N. conference in Geneva this week, Bush was expected to promise a U.S. donation of half the 3 million tons of food necessary to alleviate the African famine...
...minds of the in graves long since filled, are the figures of Peter Quint (William Cotton) and Miss Jessel (Juhe Kierstine). They both come to life to haunt and terrify the inhabitants of the country house. Quint, an amoral seducer of women and children, has a vaguely sexual psychic hold over Miles. Cotton is powerful as this corrupt character not only because of his impressive voice, but in the way he portrays Quint's chllings unremorseful villainy. The governess battles against him, fighting to save the children from his voice-like hold...
...shrewd in his dealings with his military colleagues and with the general public. Partly because of strong support from the U.S. and other Western countries, Pakistan's economy is strong, growing at a rate of 6% a year, and the country expects to profit from a bumper crop of cotton. Zia has set as his goal the creation of an "Islamic democracy," but his vision of Islamization is far more restrained than the one being practiced by the mullahs in neighboring Iran. Zia has remained on correct terms with both Iran and Iraq and strengthened Pakistani ties with the gulf...
...just like to watch things grow," is the way J.O. Cross Jr., 58, explains his decision to follow his father's vocation. He bought his own 360-acre spread in central Georgia's Dooly County in 1953 and planted a variety of crops (soybeans, cotton, peanuts, wheat) to hedge against low prices in any one. Profits were never large, but with his wife Ruth teaching at a high school, they were able to send three children through college. "We were enjoying making a living," the balding, bespectacled Cross recalls. "We used to ride out Sunday evenings and just look...
There are, of course, less passionate participants in the debate: farmers and lawmakers who agree that agriculture should be weaned from dependence on Government but fear that the Reagan Administration is trying to move too fast at the worst possible time. Jack Stone, president of the California-based Western Cotton Growers Association, comments ruefully, "Over the years, our farmers have been for more world-competitive, market-oriented programs. Now that we may be forced into them, it's scaring...