Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legacy. To trade for Russian oil, Castro converted much of Cuba's arable land to sugar. A government bureaucrat sighs as he tells the potato story. During the cold weather in Russia, Cuba would grow potatoes and ship them all to Moscow. Then six months later, when the Russian harvest came in, Moscow would send a year's worth of potatoes back to Cuba, where they would have to be stored in huge refrigerated warehouses. Now the warehouses stand empty and useless...
Such pain is evidence that America has yet to harvest the full rewards of its founding principles. The land of immigrants may be giving way to a land of hyphenations, but the hyphen still divides even as it compounds. Those who intermarry have perhaps the strongest sense of what it will take to return America to an unhyphenated whole. "It's American culture that we all share," says Mills. "We should capitalize on that." Perhaps her two Native American- black-white-Hungarian-French-Catholic-Jewish-American children will lead...
...soon as next month, the deadline for the end of the current GATT talks. Apprehensive Japanese rice farmers last week furiously protested the arrival of the Tanjung Pinang, an Indonesian freighter carrying Thai rice shipments imported under a special one-time arrangement to make up for a bad harvest this summer. The protesters seemed all too aware that the Tanjung Pinang is a harbinger of imports still to come...
...themselves, creating their own special-enterprise zones to attract outside investment. The money and loans to finance these schemes usually came from local branches of the state bank; many of the banks used all their money for such investments and ended up having to pay farmers for their harvest in promissory notes of doubtful value. The leaders in Beijing called these unregulated investment programs "warlord economies" and set out to control them...
...traditional Thursday meal will be repletewith roast turkey with homemade stuffing andgravy, baked sugar cured ham, harvest nut roastwith vegetarian gravy, whipped potatoes, butternutsquash, mashed turnips, garden green peas, freshcranberry sauce, dinner rolls and fresh pumpkin,apple and pecan pies...