Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Communist Party's Center for American Studies, at his house. He has no gas for his car, and his neighborhood is blacked out. We enter another world when we sit down with him and Monreal in the gilded elegance of Havana's Ferminia Restaurant -- dollars only. Wolfing down real meat, the two thirtysomething economists paint glowing pictures of a wondrous second-generation Marxism where quasi-private enterprise pays for the nation's broad social safety...
...sugarcane. He seems content with Castro's policies. "Food is not a problem here," he says, patting his big stomach. He can sell some of his surplus peanuts, sweet potatoes, coffee, sheep and pigs. City friends travel 25 miles from the capital to barter for his vegetables and meat, but since he has no fertilizer, no pesticides and no electricity to pump water for irrigation, his production will not increase soon. He hopes private ownership will encourage other farmers to grow more, but he is dubious. "Cubans are used to receiving everything from the state," he says...
Sonfields': Turkey of course. A seventeen pounder, roasted to a perfect tenderness with a ton of dark meat; the chef's assistant was amazed at how easily he carved the bird. And more than enough for left-overs. Too bad turkey is so dull. But it made a good curry and a good Monte Cristo sandwich the next...
...better consumer-goods managers are using these facts to advantage. Distillers Remy Martin and Courvoisier regularly run Mandarin- and Cantonese- dialect Cognac ads in Chinese newspapers and magazines. And meat packer Hormel & Co. designed some of Spam's in-store promotional displays in Korean. Others have stumbled. A New York Life Insurance Co. ad designed to appeal to Koreans failed miserably because it used a Chinese model. Citibank had to drop a New Year's holiday TV ad targeted at Chinese consumers after viewers complained about the sexual innuendo of corks popping out of champagne bottles. The bank replaced...
...Garden City, Kansas (pop. 24,600), a boom in the meat-packing industry that began during the 1980s continues to attract aspiring workers, principally from Mexico and Southeast Asia. Now, of the 3,666 children in Garden City's elementary schools, roughly 700 require special help because of limited proficiency in English. Lowell, Massachusetts, was a fading city of 19th century textile mills until 1985, when the Federal Government chose it as a resettlement site for Southeast Asian families. This year, aided by federal and state grants, Lowell spent $5.9 million on bilingual education; courses are offered in Spanish, Khmer...