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...farmers are finding buyers scarce and the returns slim. "Some land goes up for sale and doesn't even bring out a bidder, since nobody has much money," says the Illinois Farm Bureau's Dale Butz, brother of former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. After a long, spectacular climb, the value of crop land is falling. Average Indiana farm land sold a year ago for $ 1,200 an acre. Last month it was fetching only $700. Predicts Robert Maurer, a banker in Fairbury, Ill. (pop. 3,400): "I'd say 5% of Midwest farmers may have trouble surviving...
...each song. After becoming "tipsy," for instance, she hiccups and belches her way through a number, teetering back and forth on the stage. And Hellmold's voice, even in the uppermost reaches, is more than equal to such affects; the cadenzas of some of her arias, though they climb to high C's and D's, remain brilliantly clear...
First to go was Maria Ferraguto, 50, who had won bonuses for hard work on her climb to the job of a personnel director in a Rome post office. She was charged with aggravated and continuous fraud against the state, a felony that carries a penalty of up to three years in jail and up to $318 in fines. Her alleged crime: consistently checking in to her office at 11 a.m. and leaving at 1 p.m., thus working only two of the six daily hours required. Alessandro Vigneri, 29, police claim, should have been handling baggage at Fiumicino Airport instead...
...Police suddenly received orders for a maneuver in the north. Armed with assault rifles, grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered aboard trucks and rode all night through the newly harvested rice fields of central Thailand. Finally the trucks began to growl up the narrow roads that climb to the Golden Triangle, the opium-rich territory where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos converge...
...though a climb up the corporate ladder does bring wealth and responsibility, it does not bring the absolute power this person dreams of. The days of Rockefeller, Hunt, Getty and other corporate dictators are over. Management these days has a board and stockholders to answer to, so unless all of your business associates are likewise closet liberals. You will succeed only in making a total fool of yourself, after which you will be fired and blackballed from taking any position in corporate management again...