Word: cottons
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...More Bale Outs WTO appeal judges declared subsidies to U.S. cotton growers, worth about $2.7 billion in 2003, illegal. The verdict will likely inspire other challenges to U.S. and E.U. trade subsidies...
...want to. Later in the show, a very different key was stuck when Shawna J. Strayhorn ’07 cracked up play-goers with a rant about the discomforts of tampons, douching, and thongs. She even wondered aloud why lingerie companies don’t sell cotton panties with French ticklers sewn into them...
...started teaching 31 years ago, she says, "I could make objective observations about my kids without parents getting offended. But now we handle parents a lot more delicately. We handle children a lot more delicately. They feel good about themselves for no reason. We've given them this cotton-candy sense of self with no basis in reality. We don't emphasize what's best for the greater good of society or even the classroom...
...release in Britain last week. It's his funniest film yet, which is surprising, given that it is populated by children who have lost limbs to the land mines that plague the region. "There's an Iranian expression that says, You can cut off a man's head with cotton," says Ghobadi, 36. "So this is our cotton, this sense of humor. I tried to soften the grief and the sadness because if I told you everything that was sad, nobody could watch the film." At first, Satellite (delightfully played by Soran Ebrahim) is a relatively cheerful friend, protector...
Born in rural South Carolina in 1954, Holman dropped out of school in his early teens to support his family by working in cotton fields. He moved to Boston in the 1970s with his wife and began working for Harvard University Dining Services, becoming a member of the “Adams Family” 15 years...