Word: ahalt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also help make up the deficit. Clearly, Washington's tactic of using food as a weapon to make Moscow behave in international relations has misfired. Indeed, the U.S. is now scrambling for a share of the Soviets' grain business. Says Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economics J. Dawson Ahalt of the DOA: "It's an interesting turnaround...
...prices is caused primarily by the summer's drought in the South and parts of the Midwest. In many sections of the country, the average temperatures ranged six to eight degrees above normal, and rainfall was less than half the usual amount. Says Agriculture Department Economist J. Dawson Ahalt: "If you're a farmer in Arkansas or eastern Nebraska, this drought has knocked hell out of you, really cut your yields by half in some instances...