She says it takes a lot of fuel to grow and harvest all that cotton.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

And Thomas Jefferson described the people of the North this was in the 1780s now, this is before the cotton boom and all that he described the people of the North this way.

托马斯杰斐逊描述了北方人民,那时候是十八世纪八十年代,还是在棉花产业兴盛之前,他是这么形容北方人的

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Virtually all of Burkina Faso's cotton is exported.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08