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...mobile homes. Astonishingly, the units accounted for some 36% of all new single-family detached houses sold in the U.S. last year. This pleases Joseph Morris, president of Champion Home Builders Co., a mobile-home manufacturer based in Dryden, Mich.: "People no longer stigmatize our homes as 'little tin boxes...
...drilling rigs and steel, and they have also cashed in on designer clothing and personal computers. Ironically, noted Chen, "the states that have been most successful are those that are very poor in resources, like Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They have not been tied down like Malaysia to tin and rubber...
...equal access to it for all," Liebling wrote. "Our present news situation, in the United States, is breaking down to something like the system of water distribution in a casaba, where peddlers wander about with goatskins of water on small donkeys, and the inhabitants send down an oil tin and a couple of pennies when they feel thirst...
...force. So the military limply gave up. Bolivia, with an annual per-capita income of only $550, the second lowest in the hemisphere after Haiti, s an economic mess. The output of wheat and cotton is running below the levels of he 1970s. Further, production of such minerals as tin, lead, gold, silver and zinc las been devastated by miners' strikes, and only one of the state-owned mining group's 14 largest mines makes a profit. The inflation rate of 157% is likely to rise, foreign currency reserves total only $83 million, and by year...
...leftist guerrillas held hostage scores of the country's leading businessmen and three top government officials. Outside, the army stood guard holding its fire, but working on the guerrillas' nerves during the long nights by banging garbage-can lids and throwing stones on the auditorium's tin roof. Whether they willed it or not, Hondurans were being drawn more deeply into the political turmoil that plagues so many countries in Central America...