Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jammed the sidewalks. It seemed none of them (save the Queen) could help smiling and clapping or waving their $3 Union Jacks. Hundreds of overnight campers stood on lounge chairs or watched the spectacle on portable TVs. Nora de la Cruz brought her portrait of the Queen trimmed with cotton. Said she: "Too bad we could have no block parties...
Though intended as parody, a "piss-take" the Aussies would call it, of the old-fashioned movie musical. Starstruck is more than cotton candy. The difference lies in Armstrong's deadly satiric aim and her choice of targets. In attempting to make fun of the awkward staginess of giant musical production numbers, she produces routines which transcend that awkwardness, so that one can really imagine Julius and company breaking into song sporadically. Jo Kennedy and Ross O'Donovan play their characters not as stereotypical angry young punks, but as lonely eccentrics, breathing life into Jackie and Angus...
...members of the country's National Police guarded the once bustling agricultural center of Berlin (pop. about 30,000), guerrillas launched a cautious nighttime raid. For an hour small-arms fire popped back and forth between the opposing forces. Then the guerrillas slipped away into the surrounding cotton and coffee fields of Usulután, one of El Salvador's richest and most strategic departments...
During his 20-minute speech, Reagan outlined that aid. One program, scheduled to begin this spring, is payment in kind (PIK), which will give Government-owned grain and cotton to farmers who agree to idle more than 20% of their acreage. Farmers can then sell the giveaway grain or use it as feed. The Administration hopes that the move will reduce enormous surpluses and save from $3 billion to $5 billion in grain storage and loans over the next two years...
...principal Brazilian export, dropped from $495 to $120 per ton; Zambia's copper price plunged from 950 per Ib. to 690. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere put it plainly: to buy a seven-ton truck in 1981, his country had to produce four times as much cotton, or three times as much coffee, or ten tunes as much tobacco, as it took to purchase the same vehicle five years earlier...