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...taste; it is also a status symbol of a high living standard, even in Communist countries. When the Soviets suffered a crop shortfall two years ago, they did not slaughter cattle to conserve grain (as they had done in 1963), but instead they imported 28 million tons of corn, wheat and soybeans. So long as the industrial nations continue to favor meat over direct grain consumption, says Sylvan Wittwer, Michigan State University agricultural economist, "the sky is the limit for food demand...
...informally controlling grain exports, the Administration hopes to forestall such embarrassments as the "holding in abeyance" on Oct. 5 of $500 million worth of corn and wheat contracted for by the Soviet Union. Having too hastily assumed, on the basis of talks between Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz in late September, that the Russians were interested only in "modest" purchases of a million tons or so, the White House was startled to learn early this month that between 5 million and 10 million tons of grain might soon be heading to the U.S.S.R. Ford promptly called...
...eager to have the inflationary specter of a large grain export dangling before the public-and the Democrats. The Republicans and the nation are still smarting from the "great grain robbery" of 1972, when the Soviets secretly bought up some 25% of America's wheat crop plus much corn...
...from last year, but they are the cheerful exception. Floods, drought and early fall frost have sharply reduced crops. The Agriculture Department, which raised the hopes of foreign buyers by grossly overestimating the size of the crop earlier this year, released its latest forecasts last week. The corn harvest may come to 4.7 billion bushels, down 16% from last year; and soybeans to 1.3 billion bushels, down...
...sometimes willing to question not just prevalent conclusions but prevalent assumptions. For example, he questions the significance of measuring the material incentives offered the slave. He suggests instead that people sometimes work as eagerly for collective satisfaction as for individual advantage, and that the most important incentive for shucking corn zealously far into the night was the community life that came with...