Word: sisal
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...FLOORS AND FURNITURE You can get a huge sisal rug and then put a smaller, colorful one in the middleand oversize beanbaggy pillows on the floor for hanging out. Stacking boxes for storage can double as coffee tables when you're sitting on those oversize pillows. Use those oversize pillows as living-room-type seating when friends come over, and if they stay over, they can put them together and use them as a guest...
...Portuguese-speaking Africa as the husband of a plantation owner in an unnamed country that is clearly Mozambique. Just as he was about to become his own man, he becomes someone else's. Literary London and a writing life are replaced by 18 years of backwater society and sisal harvests before Willie, at the age of 41, leaves his wife and returns to Europe. "I have been hiding from myself," he concludes. "I have risked nothing. And now the best part of my life is over...
...enemy for local peasants. Moving mostly in darkness and traveling up to 20 miles a night, the wild pigs have cut local food production by half. But hunters risk their lives if they go near enough to shoot the pigs and must rely instead on haphazard metal traps and sisal nets...
...part because Tanzanian farmers lacked incentives to cooperate. As a result, production of Tanzania's key export crops (coffee, cotton, tea, pyrethrum and sisal) is 40% lower than it was in 1970. The manufacturing sector, which was also taken over by the state, has fared no better. Mainly because of a lack of foreign exchange to buy raw materials and spare parts, many factories are now operating at less than 20% of capacity. That has sparked a vicious circle of economic decline. Without consumer goods to buy, farmers produce only enough food for themselves, which in turn means even...
Reagan has given the General Services Administration $100 million to start buying as many as 15 materials for the National Defense Stockpile. In addition to high-temperature metals used in jet engines, such as cobalt, titanium and columbium, the Government will consider buying oddities like sisal fibers, a key ingredient for rope; castor-bean oil, a high-quality lubricant; and pyrethrum, an insecticide. While the amounts are not yet great, they represent a new direction in policy. Said Congressman James Santini, a Democrat from Nevada, "This is both a substantive and symbolic beginning. It's long overdue...