Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflation. The Consumer Price Index in September was still rising at a double-digit pace. But producer (wholesale) prices for "intermediate" goods such as textiles and steel showed no rise at all in October, the first time that had happened in six years. Prices for raw materials such as cotton and coal actually dropped a bit for the third straight month. Interest rates were sliding too: major banks last week cut the prime rate (on loans to their best business customers) by half a point, to 161%. That is five points below the peak last winter...
...nightcap in his Manhattan hotel room. But after a couple of drinks, he went blank. When he did not show up for a morning business meeting, his colleagues grew worried. They went to his room and found the Texan wild-eyed, heart pounding and his mouth dry as cotton. He was also hallucinating about little creatures that were trying...
...James Cotton Band and The Bangs-- Jonathan Swift...
...House also raised the so-called target prices for grains and cotton, which require the Government to subsidize farmers if market prices drop below the targets. This year, with the target for wheat at $3.81 per bu., payments for that crop may exceed $400 million. The House bill would raise the wheat target...
...emphasize the comfort dimension, some new futons come with a core of foam rubber, which seems to disturb at least a few futon purists. Not to worry, soothes Emily Kossowsky of Boston's New Moon Futon Co. Says she: "We stress that the foam is surrounded by cotton...