And for those with sensitive skin, an environmental conscience, or both, "tree free" toilet paper made from cotton linters is now available.
Britain's economy doubled in size in the 32 years from 1830 to 1862 as increased productivity spread from cotton to other industries.
Europeans imported enormous amounts of consumer goods, ranging from cotton products, tea, and ceramics, to lacquerware and seasonings such as pepper and cloves.
He advocates that people put their money in real assets ranging from cotton to natural gas, because currencies backed by government are being debased.
The gains are possible because Esquel owns a vertically integrated supply chain and manufacturing process which extends from cotton farming, spinning, knitting, weaving, and apparel production, and then all the way to retailing.
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If these deals fail to attract shoppers and stores are forced to offer further price cuts, it could cut into profit margins, particularly as retailers have been facing rising costs of materials from cotton to gold, retail experts said.
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Asked by Newsweek about his unlikely rise from the cotton fields of the Deep South to the pinnacle of Wall Street, O'Neal replied with almost teenage glee.
Gap this month told investors it expects pressure from higher cotton costs to ease, helping it return to expanding merchandise margins, especially in the back half of 2012.
T-shirts made from organic cotton cost more than other t-shirts.
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It's made from a blend of cotton and a new polymer made from corn.
African yields rank dead last in every major crop harvested, from corn to cotton.
Cotton-industry officials say it is virtually impossible to tell organic cotton from the ordinary kind.
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Organic cotton from Turkey, the world's largest grower, sells for about 20% more than the conventional sort.
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At best, their content comes from trees and cotton plants, with a scrap value that is probably negative.
The company will be using recycled cotton from blue jeans in the interior of the 2012 Ford Focus.
We learn of gunboats bound for America that change direction to head toward Asia and of international trade being affected by the simultaneous disruption of the flow of cotton from the South and the flow of tea from China.
This led owners to experiment with ways of increasing the pace of labor, Rosenthal explains, such as holding contests with small cash prizes for those who picked the most cotton, and then requiring the winners to pick that much cotton from there on out.
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The situation was more grave for value-based retailers such as Aeropostale as it was facing a double-whammy on its margins, first from the increase in production costs due to rising cotton prices and second from the increase in promotions due to stiff competition in challenging retail environment.
He grew up in Mumbai in a family of traders hailing from Surendranagar, a cotton hub in the neighboring state of Gujarat.
The newly elected congressman from Arkansas, Tom Cotton, and Virginia Attorney General and candidate for governor, Ken Cuccinelli, were sharp, smart, and genuine.
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He changed materials, switching in 1996 from conventional to organic cotton despite the fact that it initially tripled his supply costs because it was less harmful to the environment.
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Plenty of countries in Asia and Africa have natural conditions that are better for growing cotton than those in Texas, where much of the world's cotton comes from.
As with irrigating Soviet cotton fields from the Aral Sea in Central Asia or introducing rabbits to Australia, modifying the climate will have both physical and biological consequences.
As plant genetics research advances, however, industry scientists hope that it will be possible to breed cottonseed that produces superior flour, high-quality lint, and oil, so that almost every ingredient in a birthday cake can be produced with the leftovers from Nelson's cotton production.
Indeed, Kozmo is frantically trying to ditch its college-student customers, who last year made up 76% of its business, in pursuit of those who will pay a premium to have thousands of items, from DVD players to cotton swabs, delivered to their doorsteps in an hour.
Every major crop around the globe is being stunted, from rice to wheat to cotton to soybeans.
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In that peaceful oblivion, she felt swaddled in cotton, divorced from the feelings that usually plagued her, unworried about what she looked like in her homemade clothing or what others thought of the girl with a grandmother for a mother.
Cotton explained his improvement from the beginning of the season by noting "the sense of urgency" that came after the Friars' initial losses.
Then, five days before the event, Katie Cotton and Nick Ammann from Apple public affairs showed up at the hospital and took a preview of the tour that the Governor and the Apple CEO would take that Friday.
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Preferring the comfort of her knobby-kneed cotton pants, stretched out from sitting day-after-day at her computer, she accents her dark palette with tiger-print bedroom slippers.
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