Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...towns that depend on only one or two factories for their existence. In Newberry, S.C. (pop. 10,000), the first blow came last month when the Collins & Aikman hosiery plant was closed down, idling 340 workers. Two weeks ago, Newberry Mills began shutting down its obsolete, 98-year-old cotton mill for good; 330 workers are being fired. Unemployment in Newberry County is now 16%, triple the rate of last December...
...believe that Chelsea would turn up for such an event, but it's a bit of a strain to imagine her bringing along her demind-boyfriend to be skewered by Norman's verbal parries. The dentist (Debney Coleman), incidentally, is the real McCoy; he wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires a great leap of faith is understanding why Chelsea wants to unload the dentist's 13-year-old son on Ethel and the old bastard for a month while...
...well-made leather garment will last ten to 15 years. It travels well and does not wrinkle easily. And leather seldom if ever has to be cleaned. Exults Arleen Sorkin, a Manhattan actress-model: "When I was wearing silk, the dry cleaner loved me. When I was wearing white cotton, the Chinese laundry loved me. Now I have a $300 chamois dress and, you know, it's hand washable. It's also great for cleaning records." Some leather buffs use an art gum eraser on stains, while others maintain that leather should be permitted, like a fine...