Word: baling
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...have flown 200 interdiction missions during the past year in what he calls "the best flying outside of combat." And not without hazard. A Florida farmer, arguing that Garland's air force prompted nervous smugglers to drop their cargo, sought damages after his cow was killed by a plummeting bale of marijuana...
Tired and hoarse, but visibly elated from his election-night triumph, the Prime Minister-elect left his home town of Bale Comeau the next day aboard Manicougan I, the Boeing 727 that served as his traveling campaign headquarters. As the plane sped west toward Ottawa, TIME Correspondent Marcia Ganger talked with Mulroney about the campaign, the economy and his vision for Canada's future...
...drought. In west Texas, where it is always arid, farmers and ranchers are enduring the second year of drought; rainfall during the past year (4.83 in.) has been the skimpiest since 1892. There in Schleicher County, farmers during a decent season coaxed 26 bu. of wheat or one bale of cotton from each cultivated acre. This year, despite getting a bit more rain than the rest of the region, they expect their fields to yield only 6 bu. of wheat per acre, or a scant tenth of a bale of cotton...
...Freudians necessary. The only medium to keep the faith is television, always a cultural anachronism, with the cop shows half consumed with cars chasing cars. Even here the four-wheeled protagonists carom off walls a lot and wind up as junk. The machine is dead, compacted in a bale. In full view of everyone, Detroit seemed bent on destroying itself...
Farm Bill. In his budget-cutting fervor, Reagan has proposed slashing or eliminating entirely a bale of venerable farm-aid programs. For example, he proposes moderating commodity price supports for most farm products, abolishing some special programs like peanut acreage allotments, and pulling the plug on the Rural Electrification Administration. As chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Jesse Helms of North Carolina has junked the Administration's farm bill in favor of his own, more expensive version; the House Agriculture Committee, meanwhile, has endorsed a bill that, complains a White House aide, "totally disregards what Reagan wanted." The Administration...