Word: cottons
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...dumped” onto world markets, driving down the price and devastating the non-subsidized farmers in the developing world. The effect was not trivial: Oxfam estimates that the price of wheat has been driven down to 35 percent of what it cost to produce, while cotton and sugar would see a price increase of 26 and 17 percent respectively if subsidies were removed...
...reform is rather timid and was hampered by the selfish lobbying of France, Germany, Spain and Portugal (the countries that previously received the most net subsidies). Commodities such as beef, cereals (the single largest recipient of funds) and mutton will only partially decouple, while subsidies for olive oil, tobacco, cotton and sugar will still be determined solely on production...
...thought of going the "conventional route"--being embalmed and then buried in a fancy casket. "Just dig a hole, put me in it, then cover me back up," says McDonald. Come that day, they plan to be buried dressed in jeans and T shirts and wrapped in cotton shrouds. Says Cordell, an environmental scientist: "I figure I'll just fertilize a tree...
...leave once his children finish school, and he's hardly alone. Every day thousands of Biharis cram the state's railroad platforms to join the millions who have already migrated to a new life, becoming the unskilled backbone of industries as diverse as the construction business in Kashmir, the cotton houses of Bombay and the farms of Punjab. Census takers say a third of Champaran's population has taken part in the exodus. Long before his own kidnapping, Salahuddin sent all three of his sons to New Delhi to study and work. "Our society is on the edge," he says...
That morning, we decide that Angela will wear a bride costume she designed earlier in the year: a floor-length strapless gown with a train made from fuchsia cotton and maroon silk from Pakistan sewed over a fleece blanket. She covers her head with a matching tulle veil and burgundy wooden mask...