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...into crushers last week, growers and vintners were in no mood to raise their goblets to Bacchus. Because of a worldwide glut of wine, this year's harvest of nearly 2 million tons of grapes will be far more than needed. "We are in a hell of a bind here," says Earl Rocca, a grower near Fresno. "We're in a grape depression." While consumers are savoring the lowest wine prices in years, some growers are being pushed close to bankruptcy...
...American psyche. The idea of manifest destiny carried both to a bellicose extreme; Franklin Roosevelt, when he insisted that the nation had nothing to fear but fear itself, expressed the linkage beautifully. Patriotic trappings took on particular importance in a vast, heterogeneous nation with hardly any history to bind its citizens, and the pioneeer spirit is necessarily hopeful...
...this respect, Ferraro seemed at least as success ful as a previous vice-presidential candidate in a bind. Eight presidential elections ago, a young Republican Senator named Richard Nixon went on TV to justify his receipt of political donations ? and of a cocker spaniel named Checkers. Nixon, of course, faced only the camera, not 200 reporters, and he had a script. With Ferraro, every thing is different, special, more consequential. The stakes are higher because whatever happens to Ferraro happens to a pioneer, a historic figure. Mondale edged close to a complaint about the intense public focus last week...
...deposit comes due. If all that money is not reinvested, the company may find itself in serious trouble. Said a senior Treasury Department official last week: "We're watching it very, very closely. We're deeply concerned." F.C.A. is not alone among S & Ls in a bind. Since the beginning of the year, Government regulators have forced nine failing S & Ls to merge with larger institutions...
...when Soviet shoppers see a line forming, they simply join it, assuming that some scarce item is about to be offered for sale. A study published by Pravda calculates that Soviet citizens waste 37 billion hours a year standing in line to buy food and other basic necessities. To bind an entire people to that kind of life is to do a little of the work of the Gulag in a different style...