Word: swine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, one industrious vegetable grower in the North earns five times as much as her office-worker son in Hanoi. In 1983 Viet Nam managed to feed itself for the first time in years. Though owning pigs is illegal in Hanoi, many of the capital's residents raise swine with loving care; a single butchered porker can bring in as much as a well-paid salaried worker earns in a year...
...make matters worse, Swaby and company have also discovered Gilbert's ruse and are threatening to prosecute him. This leads to a conformation over Betty's late in which Joyce and Swaby team up against Gilbert and Allardyee, the latter of whom looks so much lick the aforementioned swine that his sympathy seems entirely logical. His wife and enemy win out, and Gilbert is forced to go to Swaby's party, where the nasty doctor seduces his wife and cats...
...pose, the ladies arch their backs so radically that they look poised for a back flip. An exception is Gerel Hilding, whose Tybalt has genuine authority. Perhaps unwittingly, Stuttgart Choreologist Georgette Tsinguirides, who set the ballet on the Joffrey, made the Montagues the good guys and the Capulets the swine: for instance, at the end of the first-act ball, Lord Capulet's decision to spare the gate-crashing Romeo from Tybalt's outrage is scarcely indicated. As Juliet and her Romeo, Patricia Miller and James Canfield both lack spirit and flair, but let the music carry them along...
...notions of arranging huge barter trade deals, like selling 5,000 swine to the Dominican Republic. Its expertise has not been as much in demand as was hoped, and few deals have come off. Last year the subsidiary lost $12 million. About 150 of its 1,000 employees were laid off in early August...
...bounty of $300 is now being offered for any remaining black pig, dead or alive, that can be turned up. That is a huge sum in rural Haiti, but voodoo priests are rumored to be hiding some native swine for use in their rituals. Explains one priest: "Some little gods will accept a black goat in place of a pig, but the important gods will...