• The designer is reissuing six prints from the last decade in four stretch-cotton styles in a capsule she calls the Archive Print Collection.

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  • It felt as if the country had been wrapped up in the cotton-wool of establishment etiquette.

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  • Lucky for you Ermenegildo Zegna came out with several of them this season in a silk-cotton blend, giving them that relaxed yet still sharp look.

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  • Nonetheless, trade at its Primark stores was more intense than expected, which - along with lower than expected manufacturing costs due to a drop in cotton prices - helped the chain achieve better operating profit margins than a year ago.

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  • From the top, I took in the panorama, the city flanked by the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers and shrouded in ribbons of spun-cotton fog.

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  • So did the job-destroying mechanised cotton pickers in the southern states and the demand for strong-back labour in northern ones.

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  • The deluge has caused extensive damage to key crops - such as wheat, cotton and sugar cane - in a country where agriculture is an economic lynch-pin.

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  • They still drive Honda and Nissan sedans, and go to work in short-sleeve shirts and cotton pants.

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  • It grew partly out of a 1905 scandal in which traders obtained confidential cotton-crop estimates.

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  • Aeropostale was unable to respond to the sky-high cotton prices in this manner without compromising its business model.

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  • All that began to crumble on October 2nd 1944, the day of the first public demonstration of mechanical cotton-picking in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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  • Vincent Marush Sando, who coordinates a domestic-cotton promotion campaign in Mozambique's capital Maputo, says Africa should place stiff import duties on used clothes from the West.

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  • The story of the former Soviet Union's disastrous policy of cotton-growing in Uzbekistan, of the wind-blown salt that its depletion of the Aral has left, and of the pollution remaining, makes for very depressing reading.

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  • Brazil, also a competing cotton producer, believes that this combination of US agricultural subsidies and over-production has resulted in the dumping of American cotton on the world markets, depressing world prices.

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  • In October 1999, PCOM merged with the Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill and the new entity, the Plains Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill (PYCO), markets about one-third of the cotton oil produced in the United States.21 The Plains Cooperative Mill in Lubbock is the world's largest cottonseed oil mill, receiving about 1, 200 tons of seed per day from the region's gins, and churning out the makings for peanut butter, soap, and throw pillows.

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  • Overall, the attention to detail was conspicuous, from the feather-filled duvets and gossamer cotton sheets to heavy oak hangers in the spacious walk-in closet.

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  • Studies carried out in Tanzania, where the researchers covered 20% of surfaces where mosquitoes rest with fungus-covered cotton sheets, led to a drop in malaria transmission of 76%.

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  • Once the leading cotton-growing county in the United States, it has now become one of the biggest steel-producing counties.

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  • The American onslaught was finally halted at Royal St George's in 1934 when three-time winner Henry Cotton clinched the first of six successive British victories.

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  • In are canvas bags and cotton T-shirts.

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  • In Lake Village, Arkansas, a grant-aided project to renovate and study Lakeport, the last remaining cotton plantation in the state, has aroused little public interest.

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  • Or choose a long, generous open-weave woolen scarf or one in wrinkled rough cotton solid or with a muted print.

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  • The great majority of it was destined for Lancashire which (in turn) produced two-thirds of all the cotton fabric that was traded.

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  • Consider the source of the suit: Walzel Jewelers, an authorized Rolex dealer in Houston that doesn't cotton to cut-rate competition on the web.

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  • On a recent December morning there were teens picking cotton in nearly all of a half-dozen Monsanto farms in Uyyalawada, 250 miles south of India's high-tech hub Hyderabad.

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  • With cocoa and cotton ready for harvest in Ivory Coast - the economic powerhouse of the region, and the world's largest cocoa producer - every lapse in the peace process creates more economic hardship.

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  • He is not alone in voicing scepticism about the long-term appeal of organic cotton.

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  • After a while, we reached a group of eight workers in cotton shoes, hard hats, and military-surplus uniforms.

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  • His fall collection has brushed-cotton trousers cut like jeans, available in half a dozen colors that include autumnal reds and oranges.

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  • Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.

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