Word: breadbasket
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...alai's future would seem to be secure if the enthusiasm of Mirmina's eleven-year-old son Michael is an indication. Using his mother's breadbasket for a cesta, he practices throwing rubber balls at the garage. Says Michael: "I wish they had a midget jai alai league here. It's better than midget football...
Center Brian Banks, who singlehandedly comprises the Crimson's rebounding breadbasket, garnered two personal fouls and technical in the first four minutes, and languished on the bench for three quarters...
...Radical. The scheme is mainly the work of County Executive John Klein, 43, who began his campaign to save what he calls "New York City's breadbasket" right after being elected in 1971. His first step was to set up a twelve-man committee of farmers and charge it with rinding a way to keep the farm lands. John Talmage, 45, a farmer in Riverhead, suggested the development-rights formula. The idea seemed so radical, he recalls, that "I thought it was not salable...
Since the 1940s, the mean global surface temperature has fallen only about 1° F. But even this small drop has trimmed a week to ten days from the growing season in the middle latitudes that are the earth's breadbasket. Continued cooling could lead to agricultural disasters. The vaunted "miracle" wheat and rice of the Green Revolution were specifically created by plant geneticists to thrive under the optimum growing conditions of recent years. They are particularly vulnerable to vagaries of weather. A decline in moisture can significantly reduce their yields; they can also become susceptible to blights...
...tables are too close together; the claustrophobic atmosphere was aggravated when the only two other patrons were placed at an adjoining table. The girl at the next table knocked our breadbasket on the floor when she removed her coat. The waiter watched as the slices of bread rolled under the adjacent tables; when I got up to leave I found myself stepping over the still unretrieved pieces of bread...