Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bumper crops of many farm products could still drive down some retail food prices this year-but in view of the widening spread between farm costs and retail food prices, the consumer would be wise not to count...
...where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power, and with it a renewed sense of pride. Some Navajos these days drive cars with bumper stickers proclaiming DINE BIZEEL (Navajo Power). In the towns that ring the reservation, this new assertiveness has been happily greeted by sympathetic Anglos; but others have reacted violently. Last week TIME'S David DeVoss visited the Navajos and filed this report from Farmington...
...ports at Banias and Tartous. In the interior, the Orontes River, which flows perversely to the north while all the others in the Fertile Crescent flow south, waters a lush plain where the wheat fields are as endless as those in Kansas or Nebraska. This year Syria expects a bumper crop of two million tons. Farther to the west, along the Euphrates River, a giant dam will be finished this year. It will add another 1.6 million acres of arable farm land to the economy and eventually quadruple Syria's electric-power output...
...island of Corsica, where they sail and waterski. Occasionally during the year they take long weekend trips to London or resorts in France. Though they could probably afford it, they do not own a country house. Both detest traffic and tremble at the thought of the interminable, bumper-to-bumper return to the city every Sunday night...
...suburban householder feels upon entering wild country. It is a delicately calculated trick, but it works. Easy slashes of cruelty cut the airy imagining. " Try this,' I told my son. I handed him a two-ounce, slightly chewed Yellow Cab with a treble hook mounted on the front bumper ... Inside a minute, he had three wiggling pedestrians on the hook ... One was a girl in a patent-leather suit, hooked lightly through the lip, so we released her. On the next three casts, we added a spade pimp, an elevator inspector, the club-footed editor of a monthly insurance...