Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shape for that kind of sacrifice. The country is attracting virtually no foreign investments, and international banks are phasing out loans as they come due. Tourism, once Guatemala's third largest source of foreign exchange, has dwindled to a trickle. Major export crops such as coffee and cotton are also suffering. The economy is stagnant; the country's foreign exchange reserves have fallen from $718 million in 1979 to an estimated $70 million today...
...rubles that can be used only to settle bills within the Soviet-bloc Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), some of it in hard currencies that can buy goods or pay debts in the West. But the Soviet Union also supplies its allies with oil, natural gas, iron ore, cotton, timber and other commodities, all at prices below those prevailing on world markets. In exchange, the Kremlin buys Czech shoes, Polish machinery and Rumanian textiles that are too poorly made to sell in the West. According to Jan Vanous, a specialist on Soviet-bloc economies at the Wharton Econometrics Forecasting...
...listed in the tax books as Edna's Ranch Boarding House, but everybody called it the Chicken Ranch. Well sir for sump'n like 80 years the Chicken Ranch was a place a man could call home whenever he needed to get outta his own house. Cowboys, cotton pickers, state senators, the Texas A&M football team, your more adventurous visiting clergy-they all come to Edna's place, and damn if she didn't make 'em feel right welcome. The girls were plenny good-lookin' and didn't misbehave unless you paid...
...business-page headlines last week were a relentless reminder of the gathering force of the current U.S. recession. With each passing day, the industrial landscape is increasingly marred by padlocked factory gates and smokeless smokestacks. Spreading from cotton mills in Georgia to lumber camps in Oregon, the slump has swiftly swelled the ranks of the jobless. The Labor Department announced last week that November's unemployment rate rose again, to 8.4%, the highest level in six years, up from 8% in October and 7% in July. This means that about 9 million Americans and their families are facing...
Only Ronald Brown, as Gitlow Judson, avoids the pervasive half-hearted mugging and posturing. Judson, Purlie's feisty brother-in-law, retains influence over Ol' Cap'n by posing as the stereotypical obsequious cotton-picker. Brown swaggers and staggers through the play's increasingly disjointed action with true comic aplomb, bawling "There's More Than One Way of Skinnin' a Cat" with reckless disregard for his tone-deafness, and applying his sense of dramatic timing to the moments that his cohorts largely let slip...