Word: metalic
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...crops, all those subsidies distort global trade by encouraging U.S. farmers to produce more, which drags down world cotton prices and hurts farmers such as Diarra. "I don't blame the Americans, but I want them to allow me to make a profit," he says, sitting on a broken metal chair with his son Diakaridia, 3, wriggling on his lap. "I want to be able to take care of my family, to be able to feed them, to clothe them and to be independent of anybody...
...According to copper traders who dealt with him routinely over the past several years, Liu had taken "short" positions in copper in recent months?borrowing the industrial metal at current prices to sell to others, hoping the price would fall before he was due to replace what he had borrowed. Traders say he built up a huge position, shorting some 100,000 to 200,000 tons of the metal. But because copper prices have soared lately, Liu and the SRB?a secretive state agency responsible for buying strategic commodities?may have to absorb big losses, possibly up to $100 million...
...conference call with 50, The Crimson tried to find out.‘IN THE PUBLIC EYE’As 50 begins to speak, I immediately recognize his slur. (When he was shot in 2000, one of the bullets tore through his cheek and jaw, leaving a fragment of metal in his tongue.) I ask 50 if he thinks “get rich or die tryin’” is a hopeful message.“If you’re a real person and a positive person and they say, ‘get rich...
...summarize your day, don’t leave long pauses of empty silences, and do not, under any circumstances, then apologize for your lack of brevity with drawn out umms and ahhs. It’s uncomfortable listening to voicemail, considering a cancer-breeding mound of metal is peeled to my ear, so don’t elongate my misery...
...supplemented by texts and discussions—it is not surprising that the students’ work is highly conceptual.Hannah B. Merriman, a second year graduate student at the Harvard Divinity School, sits on the floor surrounded by a tangled heap of fabric and thread. She lifts an elaborate metal structure covered in a veil of canvas, and puts it on her head. Merriman is creating performance art—a multi-piece costume that she will wear while walking through a labyrinth spray-painted on the Divinity School parking lot. The complex design will prevent her from seeing where...