Word: yarns
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...also breaking free of its dependence on coffee exports, pulling up the beans in favor of flowers, tea, cotton, tobacco and vegetables. The next push, says Director of Economic Affairs Muhakanizi, is to turn raw agriculture products into processed goods. "If you're exporting cotton, you can sell yarn," he says. For many, economic self-sufficiency can't come soon enough. "A return on investment in health and education takes a long time," says Paul Busharizi, business editor at Uganda's New Vision daily newspaper. "Meanwhile, we're not building capacity. We're taking all these kids to school...
...school age, I was alone with my mother during the day. Her instruction was so distinctive and her beautiful work so inspiring that I learned easily. She would teach me a technique, for example, by gingerly placing my small fingers in the proper position around needles and yarn rather than telling me I was doing anything wrong...
...happened--we rediscovered the joy of reading about very bad things happening to real people, preferably in exotic locales. Maybe it's because we never feel quite so warm and comfy in our poolside deck chairs, fruity cocktail in hand, as when we're reading a true-life yarn about somebody else drowning or freezing to death or doing both simultaneously...
...started a number of rollup companies, including U.S.A. Floral Products and Consolidated Capital. In the process, he drew some criticism—Forbes Magazine said “Ledecky spun an attractive yarn,” building companies on “glib gab”—from those who perceived Ledecky as making a quick fortune and then cutting and running...
...firing - and I realize this may sound like a joke, a Saturday Night Live caricature of the nervous, twittering ladies of NPR but here goes . . . When fired for obscenity I was in the middle of a five-part series on knitting.? The kind of you do with yarn...