Sugar is about to become Guatemala's major agrarian expor t and might alleviate some problems resulting from the heavy focus on coffee and banana production.

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Instead of cursing my pain and searching for a napkin with which to wipe up spilled coffee, I got to focus on more important things.

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Back in the 1950s, when the first donut stores opened, the focus was on donuts, sold by the dozens, rather than on coffee.

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