Word: broking
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Sugar has been a sticky problem for Congress for years. As the world's biggest importer (11 million tons a year), the U.S. used to control its vast imports by doling out quotas to exporting nations. That system broke down in 1974 when the price of sugar shot up, partly because of crop failures, to a record 64.5? per lb. Overproduction then sent prices dropping again. By the time Carter took office, they had fallen to about 10? per lb., some 3½? below the break-even point for domestic growers. Recalled Agriculture Secretary...
Lipavsky's broadside caused much discomfort in the Carter Administration. Shortly after Shcharansky was charged with treason last June. President Carter broke a Washington policy of not commenting on spy charges* and said publicly what the Soviets had already been told privately: Shcharansky, Carter announced, "has never had any sort of relationship to our knowledge with the CIA." The Administration had hoped that this might halt the Soviet momentum toward a Shcharansky trial, but it has not been successful; the trial is expected to begin soon-after the Belgrade conference on human rights closes...
...broke;-The Gatling's jammed...
...clouds broke. In fact, it was a beautiful day, the sky an unmarred shell of deep blue, the sunlight too bright, etching the dark green outline of each pine against the snowfields, the air so cold and so clear that the sight of the Indian Peak mountains to the northeast took your breath away. I skied with Jim and Mary Lyn Chapin and Nancy McKey, both friends of Jim's from the time in high school when he joined the Winter Park Junior Ski Patrol. Mary Lyn was a fast skier, as fast as Jim, and she looked the part...
...PATTERSON aspired to a lot of things," Jim says, but he didn't put much effort into things he didn't care about. "The goodness of the person is hard to evaluate on paper. He broke a lot of rules he had no business breaking, he was contemptuous of higher-ups, he got into a lot of trouble, and people who didn't know him very well didn't like him. The magic of the guy was his personality and what he could contribute to a group of people...