Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cotton candy," retorts Robert Roosa, a former U.S. Treasury Under Secretary and now a Wall Street banker. Salomon Brothers' Henry Kaufman agrees with Roosa. He contends that the U.S.'s public debt cannot be compared with that of a developing nation: the U.S. has an infinitely more powerful economy and a more stable political process. Others, echoing that view, note that banks can hardly send gunboats to seize Poland's steel plants, Mexico's oilfields or Indonesia's rice mills if debt repayments are halted. Says Britain's Lever: "I call [Wriston] the Peter...
...Post Office, Washington, D.C. Snatched from the bulldozers, this imposing, romanesque pile of granite on Pennsylvania Avenue has been recycled by Arthur Cotton Moore Associates, architects, to house a festive market for tourists and offices for the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities and others...
...sounds like a rural version of the coals-to-Newcastle bit: giving farmers wheat, corn, rice and cotton. In fact, the payment-in-kind (PIK) plan unveiled last week by Agriculture Secretary John Block is an intriguing idea that just might reduce bulging Government stockpiles and prop up depressed farm income...
...number of other items look no less alluring. You needed garters to hold them up, but silk stockings were 78?. In pre-diet conscious America, there were 2-lb. fruitcakes selling for 49?, and 4 Ibs. of mixed nuts cost 79?. A man's cotton-broadcloth shirt sold for $1.69, and a wool sweater for $1.95. For women, black leather oxfords cost $1.98, and a one-quarter carat diamond set in 18-karat white gold was priced...
Strangely enough, the videotape Musberger taped yesterday will be used January I during halftime of CBS's broadcast of-the Cotton Bowl, a game between two teams full of what Musberger calls "Businessmen...