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Chamorro's economic advisers aim to decentralize by establishing private savings institutions and liberating coffee and cotton growers from state controls to seek higher prices for their crops. But Ortega warned that his party will resist any attempt to roll back such Sandinista policies as agrarian reform and the nationalization of the country's banks...
...discuss secession in our republic, and ethnic conflict does not exist. Our misfortune is that Moscow kept making us grow more and more cotton. We didn't even have room to raise cattle. Can a republic that produces only oil, gas and cotton really feed itself...
...more independent republic but within the framework of a union. This way we can make agreements with other republics: you give us cotton and we give you meat. Otherwise, if we have a market economy and each republic can sell abroad or to another republic, we will not get enough meat...
Part tough New Yorker, part sunny Texan, Mary Elizabeth Smith is the daughter of a Fort Worth cotton broker. She is up-front about the face-lifting ("Only one, really") and the hair ("Ever notice how women on TV get blonder as they get older?"). A University of Texas graduate who married and divorced twice, she admits to being a "glitter kid" from way back. "Walter Winchell was my idol," she says. "I wanted to go to the Stork Club." Arriving in New York City in 1949, she learned her trade at Modern Screen, Newsweek and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
...with disco glitz. The result is a kind of musical fashion show in which the look is as seminal as the sound, the moves more decisive than meaning. The Millis appear in their videos snazzily dressed, or half-dressed ("Our clothes style is to go for fashion"), whirling like cotton candy around a spool, executing dance maneuvers that fall a bit short of def. They are musical mannequins, modeling, selling and finally buying their own line...