Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ferruzzi says its purchases -- a reported 30 million bu. of soybeans in the past 18 months -- were a legal effort to ensure adequate supplies for its customers. Many traders believe Ferruzzi's two largest U.S. rivals, Archer Daniels Midland of Decatur, Ill., and Cargill of Minneapolis, felt the pinch from rising prices and complained to the c.b.o.t. Said one trader: "Older, established firms ganged up on the new, foreign kid on the block." With prices taking a near panic dive, Ferruzzi has already lost an estimated $10 million. Harder hit may be U.S. soybean farmers, who last week...
...four children of a veteran Pan Am pilot, he was born in Hawkinsville, Ga., in 1946, then moved with his family to a new | neighborhood in Huntington, Long Island, popular with young airline captains and their families. "If there were any problems, Jeff and I certainly felt isolated from them," says a boyhood chum, Martin Rowley. "Ours were perfect childhoods." Hazelwood's father was a stickler for discipline who permitted no drinking in his home...
...late. "We are in trouble," Cousins told Hazelwood over the phone. Moments earlier, the captain had felt the first shock of his ship -- and his career -- hitting the rocks. Hazelwood bolted onto the bridge, slowed the engines and took other steps to keep the ship from sliding off the reef...
White right wingers called Botha a "traitor" for sitting down with a man they consider a terrorist. White liberals felt confirmed in their belief that Mandela and his organization, the outlawed African National Congress, hold the key to successful negotiations between blacks and whites. But Mandela had not informed the A.N.C., his family or anyone else about the meeting, and black activists were shocked and confused when they learned of it. For years they have refused to consider or tolerate any contact with the government, demanding that it first release Mandela, legalize the A.N.C. and end the state of emergency...
...crown colony in 1997. But Britain has slammed the door, saying it has no room for the colony's 3.25 million British subjects. And while the well educated and well off have found the promise of a warm embrace in other Western countries, Hong Kong's working class has felt trapped. So last week, when Singapore announced that it would admit 25,000 white- and blue-collar workers over the next eight years, lines instantly began to form outside the city-state's visa offices in downtown Hong Kong...