Word: assists
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Giving a vast assist to the U.S. balance of payments (see U.S. BUSINESS), U.S. farmers last year exported to Western Europe $1.4 billion worth of everything from soybeans to turkeys, and so far this year have matched that record pace. Helped along by European shortages of beef and pork, exports of U.S. meat have gone from $51 million to $74 million in a year. Tobacco and cotton have swung upward from $236 million to $295 million. The greatest increase was in animal feeds (from $521 million to $672 million), which ironically can only serve to reduce U.S. meat sales. Even...
...area. To help ease the northeast's immediate problem, Johnson dispatched a "water-crisis team" headed by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall to the five most parched cities-New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Jersey City, Camden, N.J.-with orders to "make hard and fast decisions on the spot to assist each affected community." During his tour, Udall warned New York Mayor Robert Wagner that his city was "on the edge of disaster." New York, is one of the nation's few major cities that does not meter water consumption in residences. It has also failed to tap its biggest potential...
...histrionics. True, the actors didn't have a great deal of substance to work with. There's limit to how many different ways you can vent your frustrations with life on "the rain." But I think that more understanding of the play, and less of an effort to assist Brecht in his valiant effort to make sure nobody in the audience missed the impact of what he was trying to say might have helped...
...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, New York City: Up in Central Park, Robert Burr plays the title role in Coriolanus with an able assist from James Earl Jones who also works out in Troilus and Cressida.* A mobile company, complete with dressing rooms, stage, and a 1,600-seat theater stowed into trucks, tours New York's five boroughs performing The Taming of the Shrew and Henry V in English and Romeo and Juliet en Espanol...
...union of fungi and algae, eats into rock, prepares it to become new soil. The molds that make Camembert are fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread and ferment grapes, grains, berries, cacti, honey and camel's milk into alcohol. Yeasts keep industry in ferment as well, assist in the manufacture of paint remover, antifreeze, synthetic rubber, adhesives, cosmetics and perfume. Yeast-feeding produces better pelts in mink, more honey from bees, faster growth in trout...