Word: bu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that aids civic art projects, began hauling rocks off the site, which is a landfill intended for a development of offices and apartments called Battery Park City. They laid down 700 cu. yds. of topsoil in a 2-in. layer and hand dug 285 furrows. Then they sowed 6 bu. of hard, red spring wheat donated by the North Dakota Wheat Commission. While office workers watched skeptically from nearby towers or paid lunchtime visits in three-piece suits, Denes and her friends weeded and watered...
...prices would have been negligible unless the Soviets had signed on for astronomical amounts of grain. The farmers' central problem is that bumper crops and record surpluses have put grain prices at dismal lows. In Kansas, where farmers have just harvested a record wheat crop of 440 million bu., grain is selling at a meager $3.65 per bu., down from $4.05 a year ago and from over $5 in 1973. In Oklahoma, where wheat is selling at $3.20 per bu., farmers invest nearly $6 to harvest each bushel. These are the mathematics of desperation. "The farmer...
...Harvard affiliation, but we also have recruited distinguished visiting faculty members." They are distinguished in that they are the ones who seem to teach all of the courses, while "Harvard affiliated" apparently includes grad students and people who received degrees here. Illusion and reality; tenured Harvard superstar becomes BU assistant prof A.M. 110 is APSC s-120. Does art imitate life or transform it? Whither Veritas...
Back in 1979, Farmer Wayne Cryts, 35, of Puxico, Mo. (pop. 833), deposited his 31,000-bu. crop of soybeans, then worth $190,000, in the Ristine elevator, 60 miles away. In exchange he received warehouse receipts, which he used to get a price-support loan of $140,000 from the federal Commodity Credit Corp. Cryts intended to store the beans until the price rose enough to make it profitable to sell them. But in August 1980, the owners of the elevator went bankrupt. Cryts feared that his beans would be sold and the money thrown into a pool...
...long since realized that he did not really want most of the Western Sahara, a moonscape that only a nomad could love. What he wanted was the northwestern 20% of the territory, which contained the main towns of El Aaiun and Smara as well as the phosphate mines at Bu Craa. Hassan decided to protect his claim to this area, which he began to refer to as the "useful Sahara," by literally building a wall around...