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...suit than in his fields. The new archetype of the farmers "who make U.S. agriculture the nation's most efficient and productive industry" is Pat Benedict, who has $3.5 million in assets, 3,500 acres planted in wheat and sugar beets, and who averages a return of 3.5 per cent on his investment. Pat runs his farm with calculators, computer print-outs and "precise operating schedules...
...fact, Time doesn't believe that 70 per cent of the 2.7 million people classified as farmers by the Census Bureau deserve the name. The individuals who gross $20,000 or less "should not be classes as farmers at all" because they combine a working-life in the city with one on the farm...
...They may be that, but it's a drop in the ocean. They affect so few black workers--much less than 1 per cent. I think that's irrelevant anyway because the black leaders themselves have discounted this. I think that claiming to be helping black South Africans is often the umbrella under which the corporations rationalize their participation in the South African economy...
WHAT makes this more serious is that the lowest paid workers are those saddled with integrated plans. Harvard's 80 per cent social security offset is the highest currently allowable by law. In his tax reform package presented to Congress last January, President Carter asked for a limit on social security integration. Bennett, who worked on the tax proposals, says she personally believes the integration proposal did not go far enough, but adds that Congress nixed integration reform from the package anyway due to pressure from employer organizations. The AFL-CIO has consistently opposed integration. AFL unions around the country...
...eight marshals were chosen from 43 Harvard and 19 Radcliffe candidates, Koivumaki said. He added that about 50 per cent of the senior class voted in the election late last week among the 16 previously selected finalists...