Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Needless to say, I went anyway and did not encounter dire catastrophe. In fact, John was completely wrong about the whole thing. But it is reading period so I decided to forgive John's first miss and see him again. Besides, having your tea leaves read is sort of like reading your horoscope--you don't believe it or change your plans because of it, but it's nice to hear an objective evaluation (albeit an inaccurate one) and some authoritative guidance for one's life...
...tea shop strikes you at first by its altogether workaday decor; it looks like a tacky, run-down coffee shop, with signs advertising "water vibrations, spiritual hearing, tarot." When I was there, Christmas Muzak was being played. The several tea leaf readers go from table to table talking with people and dumping tea cups upside down to decipher the leaves...
...time you notice the engulfing sadness, the tea comes, warming...
Leaving the tea room, I regretted not having a car, so, like Mick Jagger, after having been assured my "prayers would come true," I could "run twenty red lights in his honor." You see, knowing your future is liberating. And besides, it's reading period...