Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...products out as exports. Taiwan now has three such zones, each a kind of manufacturing compound. Together they will eventually employ some 90,000 Taiwanese workers in 150 enterprises. Foreign investors are also lured by cheap labor costs-one-third to one-fourth lower than in Japan-and velvet-glove treatment by the government. Foreign companies can buy factories built by the government on generous deferred-payment terms, and they encounter no red tape when they want to send their profits back home...
...last night of the Festival, the homecoming was held in an old opera house. Carvings of little chubby-faced angels, red velvet curtains, a faded backdrop painted to look like some Italian city, were part of a scene that lacked only the "La-Laaa" of Aida...
...Ghulam Jilani, a political leader who fled to London for fear of his life, it will lead to the "demolition of Pakistan, brick by brick and stone by stone. Bhutto has tried to fool the people," he adds, "but now the people have seen his iron fist under the velvet glove...
...West Coast, Lou Galliani, is the epitome of the new look in rising record-company executives, tricked out in velvet jeans, flowery shirts, shell beads around his neck and African trading beads around his wrist. He carries a leather shoulder bag and has a house near San Francisco that is decorated with animals, tropical fish and a delectable girl friend. Galliani sends the usual flowers and small gifts to radio-station employees (the bag limit is $25 by FCC law), procures the usual concert tickets and arranges the usual listener contests for trips to Hawaii with Elvis, or whatever...
...Paige, Ohrberg believes that the cars's sexual symbolism is an appropriate subject for satire, and his "Sex Machine" is an unabashed statement concerning one of the time-honored uses of the automobile. "The Sex Machine's" body is a round bed covered in a plush fur-like red velvet, and sports an overhanging canopy-mirror. The chauffeur sits in hansom coach fashion behind and above the bed so that he can keep his eyes on the road, rather than the passenger compartment--and whatever happens to be going on there...