Word: ates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...levels of two years ago. "Even with good rains," says FAO Spokesman George Dorsey, "there is bound to be a shortfall in this year's harvest. Some farmers, driven off their lands when wells went dry, did not return in time for this year's planting. Others ate their seeds to survive." In Mali alone, the government reports that 250,000 nomads have lost all their animals down to the last goat. For the nomads, that means they have lost everything. Taken as a whole, the six stricken nations may lose 60% of their cattle...
...most awsome thing you'll have to face Freshman Week has got to be the registration line. As usual that debacle will occur at Memorial Hall, once the mess hail in which all Harvard men ate when they weren't dining in their chosen club. The line--even if you get there an hour before registration is slated to begin--will stretch for what seems like miles, and once inside, you'll be treated to your first real look at the Harvard bureaucracy...
...Maker. Of the total, San Clemente ate up $6.1 million, including $1.7 million for the office complex known as the Western White House and $550,000 for communications equipment. There were many other expenses listed, some of them only tenuously connected with "security." Among these items were $998.50 to remove a wrought-iron handrail deemed hazardous and $1,950 to prune trees and eliminate what the GSA called a "safety hazard caused by dead branches...
...billion this year. Indeed, there has been a historic shift in the nation's income. As consumers have paid more and more for food, they have shifted increasing sums of money out of their pockets and into the pockets of farmers and ranchers. In 1958, the average American ate 80.5 lbs. of beef. Last year he ate 115.9 lbs. Helped by this enormous demand, farmers are doing relatively better than other Americans. In 1960, Americans who lived on farms earned only $1,100 per capita, or 55% as much as non-farm people. By last year, the farm residents...
...higher than 110, and one worker standing near the spectator's catwalk suggested that visitors touch the metal floor above one of the rollers to get an idea of how hot the place is. Most of the workers on the floor ignored the tour and went on working; one ate his lunch and worked at the same time, and the only woman we saw on the floor waved as she carried some fenders away from a machine...