Word: plows
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...action movies and thrillers that dominate Kazakhstan's DVD stores. Kaharman Jazin, director of development for the Special Economic Zone in Astana, says he recently returned home from Croatia with numerous DVD copies for friends. Jazin says "the Borat factor" aids his efforts in coaxing foreign investors to plow billions into new development projects - "Thanks to Borat," he says, "the whole world knows about Kazakhstan." And Astana tour guide Gulmira Begimbetova reports seeing a notable spike in foreign vsitors since the movie's release. As Nazarbayeva puts it, Borat has been "good for business...
...planted in the coming weeks has to be harvested in October, by far the biggest of the twice-yearly crops. But the farmers face appalling odds. Their fields are inundated with sea water and there are no pumps to drain them; the buffalo that pull their wooden plows are drowned. Laputta resident Myint Shwe tells how the cyclone claimed 20 of his cows and buffalo, wrecked his house, and destroyed his boat. He can now only plow his land "if the government gives us equipment," he says. "No equipment, no rice." He is unlikely...
...this collection is one that’s open to any Harvard student, free of charge. “It’s a reader thing!” Talbot says. “You know, it’s good that kids can just come in here and plow through this stuff.”While no one is quite sure how the comic collection got to Quincy, what seems clear is that it all began in the 1960s under Stephen M. Agli, who was the house librarian at the time. When Agli died in 2007 he took with...
...Copelands got a saw-toothed, 42 point questionnaire inquiring into their own character from Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance. Grassley wanted to know how Kenneth Copeland--who as a church leader pays no taxes but is expected to plow revenue back into the public welfare--got a private plane and whether flights to Hawaii and Fiji qualified as business trips. Grassley sought credit card receipts and the numbers of the church's offshore bank accounts...
...whims of the market rule the daily rhythms of life. Every morning, farmers who live in courtyard-style homes walk their cows past the patches of lettuce and squash gardens to the small milking station that Yili operates there. Before dairy became a local industry, people used cattle to plow the fields, but there was a better living to be made selling milk than grain. Now, that seems to be changing. "The price of feed is going up, but the milk price is stable," says He Erwen, a farmer who lives in Bingzhouhai with his family of seven. Though...