I'll bring one more towel.

arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.

He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments and took a towel, and girded himself.

(b) Cotton

Pima cotton A high grade of cotton.

Every year when it comes to the cotton harvest, the government shuts down the schools, puts the kids in buses, buses them to the cotton fields to spend three weeks harvesting the cotton.

The Tyranny of King Cotton

those who work as cotton growers or cotton pickers.

Like millions of other African cotton farmers, Madi has advantages over cotton farmers in other parts of the world.

More than five million cotton farmers in India have flocked to GM cotton, because it yields higher net incomes.

While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

The private sector shared the concern that, while cotton market reform by the Government of Benin was needed, external factors such as cotton subsidies provided by Northern countries had a negative impact on the world cotton market.

This is why the suicides are most prevalent in the cotton belt on which the seed industries claim is rapidly becoming a stranglehold.

Calls upon the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry to activate the Cotton Council in order to foster partnership in the private sector in the cotton sector.

In Cameroon, where cotton is the main source of income for nearly five million people, record crops were posted last year and the year before.

The invention of the cotton gin caused massive growth in the production of cotton in the United States, concentrated mostly in the South.

But you refuse to buy our cotton, our cocoa and our other products.

Rather than offering to do away with its cotton subsidies, America offered to open up American markets to cotton imports an essentially meaningless public relations move that quickly backfired.

Controversy Though all cotton has a large carbon footprint for its cultivation and production, organic cotton is considered a more sustainable choice for fabric, as it is completely free of destructive toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

The planting of cotton began in Central Asia.

Cotton remains the most important natural fibre, so is treated in depth.

In addition, cotton was transshipped from Java or India through Singapore.

The recent WTO dispute on cotton has implications for the prospects of an early resolution of the cotton issue.

It was essential to arrive at an agreement for predictable duty free, quota free access for cotton and its by products and the creation of an emergency fund for cotton production.

On some of his land, he now grows corn and peanuts instead of cotton.

Uses Cotton paper is used in some countries modern banknotes.

In Uganda, where civil wars in the 1970 s and 1980 s devastated farming, cotton growers are making a major comeback.

He was the son of Evangelos Marangos, a Greek cotton merchant.

The European Union also contributes to low cotton prices, paying farmers in Greece about 1 billion a year to grow the crop at a loss.

Cotton accounts for 40 percent of GDP and roughly 80 percent of official export receipts.

It is also boosting its purchases of shirts and other goods made with Fairtrade cotton.

As a result, cotton subsidies, which depress prices and displace African exports, would be sharply curtailed, and cotton exports from poor countries would receive duty free, quota free treatment in rich country markets.

Again, we'll start first with the pest the thrips.

That is embodied in the issue of cotton, which remains contentious.

The creation of an emergency support fund for cotton was important.

The material used was either wool or tight weave cotton for wind resistance and fire protection.

Cotton production expanded from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850.

Delegates noted the importance of cotton in Benin's sustainable development and poverty reduction strategy.

Trade distorting subsidies such as those for cotton and sugar need to be addressed.

Other exported goods are cotton, peanuts, wood products and apparel.

Expresses its satisfaction at the IDB's financing of the visit of experts from certain Member Sates to prepare specialized studies on cotton in order to prepare for the Forum on Energizing Trade and Investment in the cotton sector.

By the 1830s, approximately 85 of all cotton manufactured worldwide was processed in Lancashire.

The case of cotton in Benin illustrated the inequity of the multilateral trade system.

Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor.

Take away subsidies and cotton prices will rise, perhaps as much as 15 . There s real money here for the individual African, says Daniel Sumner, an economist and cotton expert at the University of California.