Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sugar and shortening," John comments, "and you're pretty close to making cake," which is, along with welfare, one of the big things wrong with this country: its daily bread cannot stand up to butter...
Even if the political confusion ends, the coup and the rioting have already had a destructive impact. Tourism, the major business after sugar, is expected to drop 50% this year, according to local travel officials. In 1986 some 257,000 visitors came to the tropical paradise, but this year the total is not expected to be much above 100,000. The U.S. Government last week issued a travel advisory recommending that, for the present, Americans defer all nonessential trips to the country...
...this century Fijians of Indian descent, whose ancestors were brought in by the British colonial government to work sugar plantations, have come to dominate the country's economy. Ethnic Indians make up 49% of the population and are the largest group on the islands, much to the chagrin of the indigenous Fijians, who make up 47% of the island nation's 715,000 people. Since Fiji gained independence from Britain in 1970, racial tensions had been held in check by the government of Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. But in April -- with the support of Indians and both poorer...
...material here. He bought some beehives. He tapped his maple trees in the spring and discovered with a born-again countryman's pleasure that his illustrious ancestor, Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had written a long letter to Thomas Jefferson, promoting maple sugar as a boon to health and commerce...
Meanwhile, there's a spread sheet to be read and plans to be made for a folk-music conference to be held at the farm in June. No, forget June, there are buckets to be taken down on Rush's roadside sugar maples, and it's time to put in blueberry bushes. Somebody's on the phone. Is he really doing all this crazy stuff? You bet. Has he found his driving wheel? Stay tuned...