Word: salinization
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...class grew rich from the international trade in pastel, a blue dye made from the locally grown woad plant, and the newly wealthy began to build the brick mansions that still line almost every central city street. The city's hallmarks are gaiety and gastronomy. At the Place du Salin, remnants of the city's 1st century Roman walls support the small, age-darkened medieval house in which St. Dominic first established his order of preaching friars, in 1215. The Wednesday and Friday (winter only) foie gras and poultry market here has dwindled over recent years to just a handful...
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...negotiations, Les Domaines des Barons de Rothschild, the firm that manages France's prestigious Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, has purchased a half interest in Los Vascos, a 500-acre vineyard located some 90 miles southwest of Santiago. French experts are already working on this year's vintage, and Christophe Salin, deputy managing director of Les Domaines, promises that "1989, which is currently being harvested, should be better...
...electoral college made up of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and delegates from each of Brazil's 23 states. Despite that, Neves, the nominee of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, tallied 480 votes to 180 for the military-backed candidate of the ruling Democratic Social Party, Paulo Salin Maluf, 53, a conservative, wealthy businessman. Pledged Neves: "This was the last indirect election of the country...
Without the oil shortage, French economic growth would have been 4.5% to 5%. Professor Pascal Salin of the University of Paris thinks that there will still be some real growth, but forecasts rises in unemployment and the cost of living...