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...leaks and pressure changes. Company investigators are also examining each of the unit's existing safety systems. Governor Arch Moore praised Union Carbide's restart announcement as welcome news. Institute townspeople were pleased too. Said Charles White, 60, a longtime resident: "MIC is one of the bread-and-butter products for Union Carbide. I think they need that product, and I feel that the accident at Bhopal has given them more insight into safety measures...
...grown to 7%. In 1981, in a feeble stab at slowing production, Congress dropped parity as an index and froze the price at $13.10 per hundredweight. Still production rose. In 1983 the Government bought 12% of all dairy products and stored away an incredible 17 billion lbs. of butter, cheese and dried milk. The cost to taxpayers had risen from $136 million in 1973 to more than $2 billion. Congress in 1983 dropped the support price to $12.60 per hundredweight (the market price was $13.60). At the same time, the Government launched a 15-month "milk diversion program": it began...
...time and would involve astronomical expense, but there was no risk. But such expenditures would inevitably undermine Khrushchev's plans to aid the consumer. Khrushchev had unrealistically committed himself with widely touted promises "to catch up with and surpass America" by 1970 in overall production. He wanted guns and butter, or a modest amount of butter anyway...
...years, whenever opposition to the idea was voiced, someone would be sure to say, "Remember Cuba?" I recall a usually calm Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov declaring emotionally that in the future we would "never tolerate such humiliation as we suffered in the missile crisis." Khrushchev had to forget butter...
...residence. Served in the Glorious Cafe in Georgetown, the roti de trois betes--roast of three "beasts"--had beef as its core, surrounded by veal, in turn ringed with boneless duck. Downed by the flu, Deaver missed the party. "He couldn't even bear to watch a peanut butter commercial on TV," his wife said...