Word: cropped
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Where an individual farmer cannot sell his small crop to Nestle or Starbucks, a middleman can collect enough coffee to sell. Many of these coyotes, however, are manipulative—acting simultaneously as loan sharks for the small coffee growing families in a manner reminiscent of sharecroppers in antebellum America...
...family. His father was a fighter pilot in World War II for the English, escaping his native Netherlands by stealing a small plane and simply flying to England. He later met David’s mother when recuperating from a career-ending plane crash as a crop duster pilot. She was the nurse who accidentally fell in love with him. This history, surreal as it seems, manages to captivate the reader by the poignancy with which it is drawn...
...evocative passage, David recalls when his father became a crop duster pilot...
...Goyette, a partner in the Cambridge architectural firm Cole and Goyette which specializes in large building projects, says the University will also have to pay heavy costs for the analysis and evaluation of its new property—and factor in the unexpected costs that crop up once a project is underway...
...yoga classes are all the rage. Koreans are eating out more and going to the movies. And not just Hollywood blockbusters?homegrown films now account for 46% of the market in Seoul, up from 25% in 1998. After the show, citizens sip cappuccinos in Seoul's new crop of serious coffee shops. Foreign franchises like Starbucks and dozens of local outlets are competing for a market that barely existed two years ago. "People like the idea of walking around with a paper cup, it makes them into something else, maybe a New Yorker," says Ahn Ung Chun, owner of Caffe...