Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insignia of the period. The cost of the miniatures is about $1.75 per man. Wellington meets other armchair generals about three times a year. Object: large-scale wars involving as many as 4,000 figures. "I guess it's an attempt to get at the playing at tin soldiers that's left in us," he theorized. "Left in us? What am I saying? That...
...that sentence from Heart of Darkness. After more than ten years as a seaman and officer in the British merchant navy, Conrad signed a three-year contract with a Belgian company to serve on river steamboats that plied the Congo River. "Like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit tin" was his description of boats like...
...Costanza, whose office has just been moved to the White House basement, flashed a hand-lettered sign: WANTED: OFFICE SPACE. During rehearsal she said to the youngster playing Amy Carter, "I've just decided your tree house will make a marvelous office for me. I can lower a tin cup and get messages...
...majority of LDCS have been knocked backward in the 1970s by a devastating one-two punch: oil price boosts that have raised the cost of running the most primitive factories and farm machines, and recession in the industrial world that has restricted markets for cotton, copper, cocoa, tin and other raw materials sold by less developed lands. In many countries of Asia and Africa, economic growth rates have dropped to around 2% a year - not enough to keep up with population expansion, which averages 2.6% for the LDCs. The poor countries have borrowed a staggering $200 billion, half...
...industrial countries should also join with the poor lands in agreements to stabilize the prices of raw materials such as copper, coffee, tin, bauxite and manganese. Partners in these agreements would set up common funds to buy and stockpile commodities when prices plunge, sell off the stocks when shortages send prices soaring...