Word: rios
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Great emphasis is now placed on diversifying the structure of the agricultural sector. The revolutionary planners are now pushing citrus fruit production. In the last three years, Cubans have planted twice as many citrus trees on the Isle of Pines and in the wsetern province of Pinar del Rio as there are in Israel--one of the world's largest fruit exporters. These trees are now beginning to yield the first heavy crops of oranges, lemons and grapefruit...
...York at 16, Albertina Rasch determined to awaken U.S. interest in ballet by taking the dance into vaudeville's thriving circuits, first as a soloist, later as head of her own troupe. The acclaim she found there led her into cho- reography-for Ziegfeld's Show Girl, Rio Rita, and to the lavish productions of Hollywood, where in 1938 she directed 800 dancers during a single week for three pictures: Marie Antoinette, The Great Waltz and Sweethearts...
...Vietcong, American bodies will be any safer from amphibious attacks from other "third world" powers. But it is not impossible that LBJ has decided to use the Vietnam war budget to provide secret funds for a new network of underwater electronic barriers in the Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes, and Rio Grande to halt all future North Vietnamese infiltration...
Thus Japanese Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta echoed the sentiment of most of the 2,200 delegates, bankers and officials in Rio when he called last week's agreement "the greatest step forward since the creation of the IMF" 23 years ago at Bretton Woods, N.H. It was also a considerable personal triumph for U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had to overcome the fears of skeptical central bankers that the U.S. would use S.D.R. to cover up its chronic payments deficit...
With considerable finesse, the bank also thwarted efforts to drive Rio's ubiquitous ladies of the night off the streets. Convinced that the girls are a picaresque asset that visiting bankers would want to see, if not buy, the chief of the foreign-capital division struck a deal with the streetwalkers: the girls would be unbothered if they policed themselves and kept their diseased and theft-prone sisters out of action for the week...