Word: tans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shortly before 8 a.m. in Harbin, a city of 2 million in northern China. Bai Shiming, 29, an energetic young bachelor, is preparing to open his shop, the Xiurong photographic studio. Bai sports a gray, Western-style suit and light tan shirt but no tie. He checks to see that all the lights are working properly, then readies his ancient-looking plate camera. A few minutes later the first customers arrive, usually in groups of two or three. Most request simple unsmiling head shots, but for more elaborate wedding pictures, Bai can provide a white dress with train...
...they must buy to satisfy their populations. They export items whose prices are largely dictated to them by richer industrial powers. The only group of exporters who were for a time, able to escape from this trap was the OPPC nations, who used monopolistic practices that a free-market Tan like Bauer would surely not encourage. Bauer's idea is Hawed in another way as well it assumes that nations which are most efficient in producing a given good today till continue to be most efficient. If Japan, for example, had adopted this idea after World War II, the names...
...Looking tan and fit, Chernenko seemed very much in charge as he moved to take his seat at center stage...
Second it is about the South. Everybody, including the bare-chested old gentlemen who are my neighbors, is tan. In the rental car on the way to Vero Beach an announcer comes on the radio: "Bob Johnson's Ford is now a great deal for you With any truck purchased next week you get a free 306 Winchester rifle and a gun rack to put in your pickup...
...fans are on hand. There are no real dugouts, just a few wooden benches on either side of the field. The players spend the game talking with the regulars in the good seats. No fence in the outfield, just a hill on which the people gather to tan and watch a game...