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...lonely dry-land plains of Foard County in north Texas, Jackie Walker, 46, raised wheat and cotton on 1,300 acres. He lost $60,000 in 1980 and 1981 and, with the prospect of more losses this year, decided to "get out while the getting out was good." Says Walker: "It's heartbreaking to see about ten years' work go down the drain for nothing...
...rooms with a gray Persian cat named Micio. Except for Micio and a Japanese screen, practically everything in the living area was designed by Armani himself, who is mulling over the addition of furniture to his assorted ventures. Certainly the low couches and chairs here, all covered with satinized cotton, and the sculpted rectangular table in a favorite Armani shade of taupe, represent a strong start. The room is coolly lit by a couple of sloping lamps Armani originally designed to show off one of his collections, and the most insistent color comes from a green tree by a narrow...
...spacy designs. But in a time when kids are playing electronic games, we shouldn't be bringing back Argyle socks." Barnes, like Armani, designs her fabric, but goes so far as to weave a sample swatch on her own hand loom, whipping up wild combos of silk, cotton and wool. "I found that I could sell the wildest fabrics for men if the style wasn't outrageous," she says. Barnes has a flexible definition of outrageous: in her first collections, she used curved shoulder pads while removing the conventional shoulder seam so that a jacket seemed to melt...
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...August, up to 75% of the country was without electricity at one time or another due to guerrilla attacks. El Salvador's gross national product, which grew by 4.4% as recently as 1978, shrank by 19.5% last year. A decline in world prices for such exports as coffee, cotton and sugar is a factor in the slump, but the war has brought new investment to a halt and driven many businessmen to close their doors and flee the country. Today guerrilla groups in Usulutan department loiter openly along the nation's most important highway, occasionally burning buses...