Word: cottons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tennessee, Republican Bill Frist was testing out another line. The Senator sat down early last Thursday morning with about two-dozen cotton farmers at a University of Tennessee agricultural research center in Jackson, which is 85 miles northeast of Memphis. Tennessee grows 660,000 acres of cotton, but farmers are in trouble, they told Frist, who was taking notes. American cotton consumption is down, the farmers complained, cotton prices are dropping, a stronger dollar means U.S. cotton can?t compete overseas and cotton mills are closing...
...shore up the industry at home and to level the playing field with competitors overseas. For forty minutes, the farmers recited bushels-full of statistics on crop yields and prices. They were hoping that the farm spending bill Congress was now considering would offer some relief. Finally a cotton farmer raised his hand to get to the bottom line. "My question is," he asked Frist, "if the surplus has gone away, are there going to be budget constraints so that it's difficult to pass this farm bill? Is the money there to pass this farm bill?" Even with...
...military facilities. Reminders of Uncle Sam abound--America Mart, America Hotel and Club America. A two-story emporium called American Depot stands in the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel emblazoned with a Coca-Cola logo. Even at traditional matsuri, or summer festivals, children wave cotton candy, shirtless skateboarders do stunts on open walkways and women in shorts and bikini tops lick jewel-colored snow cones...
...have one European sofa, designed by the good Swedes at Ikea, swathed in the finest green cotton. Added bonus: Both armrests are adorned with charming cat-scratch marks...
...Back at the American village a month after the incident, a matsuri (festival) is in full swing. Children wave cotton candy and scoop at goldfish with paper nets. Shirtless skateboarders do stunts on an open walkway. Women in shorts and bikini tops lick at jewel-colored snow cones. In the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel with a Coca-Cola logo and a two-story emporium called the American Depot march a cavalry of drum-banging young Japanese men. They're sweating through their traditional Okinawan outfits of purple bandannas and swinging orange coats...