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Another study that Time chose not to cite found in 1970 that 22 per cent of the U.S. food supply is produced by corporate farmers and by contract. The American Agriculture Marketing Association predicts that by 1985 corporations will control 75 per cent of our food supply in one of these two ways. And even the USDA admitted in a 1973 report that only cash grain and forage crops, and range livestock will be controlled by independent family farmers in 1985. Pat Benedict, a wheat farmer, is the exception, not the rule...
While reversal of the interhouse ban shows an admirable concern for the inconvenience such a ban causes, these officials should have fully considered the possibility that students may still contract salmonella, and spread it through interhouse...
Critics point to one of the research groups working to induce bacteria to manufacture insulin which already has a contract with a large pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly & Co. The speed at which the work has advanced--and possible shortcuts scientists may have taken--have raised doubts...
Luis Tiant, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees yesterday...
Tiant, 38, entered the free-agent draft when the Red Sox management refused to offer him anything more than a one-year contract, because of his age. The herky-jerky motioned pitcher was not selected until the eighth round and by only one team--the Yanks...