Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hancock County, deep in the cotton belt, is a lucky exception to a disturbing modernization of an old saw: the rich are getting a richer dose of the new technology, while the poor get left further behind. Computers are starting to appear in schools in large numbers. The total, which more than doubled in the past year, is approaching 130,000, or an average of 1.6 classroom computers for each of the nation's 82,000 public schools. But the number of machines available to each school varies widely. A survey by Market Data Retrieval Inc. found that...
...other blacks were elected to the five-member board of aldermen. With the support of three of them, Carthan embarked on an ambitious agenda, building a day care center and public housing. The anti-Carthan aldermen were Roosevelt Granderson, a grocery store clerk, and John Edgar Hays, a white cotton farmer. In 1978, one of Carthan's bloc resigned. He was replaced by another black, an ally of Granderson and Hays. The political balance shifted, and acrimony intensified...
...what used to be called good goods. To be sure, Sportpages will sell you a $7,000 royal red golf cart with a Rolls-Roycean grille. But the same catalogue also offers a personalized pet collar for $15. Along with high fashion Bloomingdale well signed $12.50 watches and $4.50 cotton placemats. For a mere $40, Tiffany offers a handsome terra cotta bowl for working cooks. Next to its $1,095 one-third scale gas-powered Corvette, the best buy at Hammacher Schlemmer just might be a $9.95 carpenter's level...
...fact that they were losing the ability to govern, even with out-and-out force. So the military limply gave up. Bolivia, with an annual per-capita income of only $550, the second lowest in the hemisphere after Haiti, s an economic mess. The output of wheat and cotton is running below the levels of he 1970s. Further, production of such minerals as tin, lead, gold, silver and zinc las been devastated by miners' strikes, and only one of the state-owned mining group's 14 largest mines makes a profit. The inflation rate of 157% is likely...
...undergarments for women. The company claims that the move is logical because women are already loyal to the brand since they buy at least 70% of the shorts worn by their husbands or sons. Like men's briefs, Jockey For Her panties will be made of no-shrink cotton. None of that lacy, silky stuff. Jockey President Howard Cooley says the product will be "very feminine, even if it's not highly sensual...