Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Tanzanian economy is sorely beset by failing crops, worldwide inflation and soaring petroleum costs. Because the government paid such low prices for basic agricultural commodities, farmers last year smuggled more than $50 million worth of sisal, cattle, cotton, cashew nuts and corn across the border into neighboring Kenya, where prices were higher, thereby depriving Tanzania of vital foreign exchange. The country's hard currency reserves, in fact, have fallen from over $100 million a year ago to only $11 million at present...
...food last year. Tanzania has gone begging on the world market for food aid, but with modest success. The U.S. is providing 20,000 tons of grain as a grant and 40,000 more on easy credit, although it turned down a Tanzanian request for 200,000 tons of corn, the national diet staple, on the grounds that it has none to spare...
...said: "Farmers should raise less corn and more hell...
...help from classic scripts (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) and talented actors (Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Lee J. Cobb). Kazan's second career in the solitary business of writing has so far resulted in three commercially successful novels that tend to thrash about in alien corn. There is nothing wrong with The Understudy, for instance, that a good script and some believable characters would not help...
...International Association, which fears that automation will eliminate one in five supermarket clerking jobs. And the industry itself concedes that there is no guarantee that computer economics will mean lower prices. Says John Strubbe, a vice president with Kroger supermarkets: "To be able to say that Kellogg's Corn Flakes is going to cost 1? less after we put in automatic check-outs-I can't say that. There are too many other factors...