Word: cottons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Agreements of varying efficacy now exist to stabilize the prices of tin and coffee. Secretary General Corea and the Group of 77 want an "integrated program" to cover those commodities and eight others: cocoa, copper, cotton, hard fibers (like sisal), jute, rubber, sugar and tea. They will ask that a $3 billion fund be set up to accumulate stockpiles of each product. An independent group appointed by producers and consumers would be empowered to add to and sell from the stockpiles to keep world prices within a preagreed range...
Food production is down by 75% in some areas. Bread, rice, milk and eggs are in short supply. Production of major cash crops like sugar and cotton is off at least 50%. Investment has been scared away, unemployment has soared, and the last remaining whites (who number fewer than 30,000) are scrambling...
...crowds. The King impressed the throngs at Montserrat by addressing them in the Catalan language. Many villages and small towns they visited were enveloped in a fiesta atmosphere. Crude posters of support sprouted in the dusty plazas, though some signs, as in Jerez de la Frontera, aired complaints: THE COTTON INDUSTRY is DYING. Carefully, Juan Carlos responded: "On such a short visit I am not in a position to examine all your problems, but we take note of them." Dismayed at first by the prospect of pressing the flesh, Juan Carlos was soon chuckling at the experience?and he does...
...LITERARY KEY to late Puritan ideology, Bercovitch chooses not the jeremiads but Cotton Mather's epic work, the Magnalia Christi Americana--particularly his "Life of John Winthrop." In his "Life," Mather portrays Winthrop as a "Nehemius Americanus," a peculiarly American saviour whose life foreshadows the Second Coming. Mather's ambition, according to Bercovitch, is to be the Winthrop of his generation; writing during the decline of theocracy, Mather, he says, offered himself--in his capacity as a representative American type--as a link between the triumphal era of Winthrop and the millenial future, thus initiating a special mode of defining...
...focuses on the language of that religion alone, Bercovitch can go even farther and assess the Puritan achievement in a frankly celebratory vein. "History betrayed them, we know," he writes. "That they persisted nonetheless requires us, I believe, to redefine their achievement in a positive way." In labeling Cotton Mather as the keeper of the American dream, Bercovitch writes that "he rescued the errand by appropriating it to himself." Although his style betrays him at times, Bercovitch's errand--the task of rescuing their errand--makes The Puritan Origins of the American Self an important, positive contribution to Puritan scholarship...