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Nobody knows for certain how much this is costing the nation. Economist Arlen Leholm of North Dakota State University ventures that his state alone will lose $2.7 billion in crops, lower federal farm subsidies and reduced farm spending. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service's William Fecke estimates that in Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas the precious topsoil of 750,000 acres of farm and grazing land has been blown away by the angry wind, an additional 7 million acres is damaged and 12 million more threatened. "If the wind keeps up," Fecke says, "we may see chunks of the Northern...
...required to continue business would be lacking. Byrd retaliated by ordering the sergeant at arms to corral any Republicans he could find. While Packwood took his arrest with good humor, he complained, "We work on comity around here. You can't do business on brute force." Republican Arlen Specter of Pennyslvania charged excitedly that the seizure of Senators "smacks of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia...
Michael J. Arlen '52, a writer for The New Yorker magazine, declared after considerable thought, "I think Harvard will probably win based on their greater capacity for abstract thought and superior personal hygiene, unless, of course, The Game is played indoors on ice, in which case any good Canadian team is bound to triumph...
Harold Brodkey '51, a colleague of Arlen's at The New Yorker, said that Harvard will win because "everybody knows that Harvard always wins...
...Arlen Specter (R-PA): Judge Reinhold, if God is all-powerful, can he make a rock so big that even he couldn't lift it? Or, following up that line, if a tree falls in the woods, but nobody is around to hear...