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...decades ago, the land around Ciudad Juárez, situated just south of El Paso, Texas, was occupied by tumbleweeds, a few head of cattle and a little cotton. But in 1965 the Mexican government decided to stimulate jobs in the northern region by relaxing its laws against foreign ownership of factories and reducing import taxes on raw materials. This has enabled U.S. companies to build so-called twin plants, one north of the border and the other south. A typical company manufactures its materials in the U.S. plant, sends them to the Mexican factory for assembly and then returns...
Dallas does not like losers, poor-mouthers, pessimists. Dallas does not fool much with the banking term negative net worth. Negative net worth, meaning, of course, you owe more than you got, is a term that dogs cotton farmers. "Fellow came by here the other day," a farm-supply dealer outside Lubbock once explained, "and told me that if he could just get back up to broke, he'd quit. Trouble is, he has to get back up to broke first...
...designed by Perry Ellis. Brooke Shields is fronting her own line of sportswear and highlights a kind of prefab insouciance. With all this, however, tradition will not be forsaken. "People always come back to basics," insists Hervey. "There is no more practical piece of apparel than a pair of cotton denim jeans. They give you a good, free feeling of comfort." This year Levi's will spend $36 million to promote 501s, those reliable, prototypical jeans that shrink, curl, give and finally smooth out on the body as if they were cut to order. There has already been...
...story white stucco house on a residential street six miles from the Los Angeles Coliseum. The house is a haven where Lewis can be himself, by himself. If he wants to, as he did one day last week, he can simply lounge around all morning in his blue cotton nightshirt on the brick patio overlooking a small, oval swimming pool. His mother, an excellent cook, prepares meals for everyone. By noon of one busy morning, she already had dinner made: a variation on shepherd's pie with layers of potatoes, red onions and scallions, green peas and saut...
Young soldiers competed to build the tallest human pyramid, and teen-agers danced to recorded calypso music. Children indulged themselves in cotton candy. In a carnival-like atmosphere, 300,000 slogan-chanting Nicaraguans gathered in Managua last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the revolution that brought down Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In his address to the crowd, Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra announced that opposition parties would be allowed to hold public rallies and to travel more freely during the campaign for the Nov. 4 elections, the country's first since the 1979 Sandinista takeover...