Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentence on Bi's crumbling blackboard reads, "He has corn and other things -----------in his fields...
Despite its inefficiency, the Ukraina kolkhoz is one of the Soviet Union's most profitable collective farms. It employs more than 7,000 people and earns a profit -- about $4.7 million in 1988 -- on sales of cattle, corn, sugar beets, wheat and other products. Yet mismanagement limits its progress. Dull cites as one example a "specialist system," requiring that people be trained to do only one specific task. Party officials, often without agricultural expertise, constantly monitor to make sure things are done as the party dictates. "Soviet farmers are accustomed to having Big Brother watching over their shoulder," says Dull...
...museum basements; and 2) little if any data gathered from their study are shared with the descendants. According to Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, the only bit of information the Smithsonian ever imparted to her group was that their ancestors ate corn. "We could have told them that anyway," says Harjo, citing the accuracy of Indian oral tradition...
Instead of model settlements, the Polonoroeste project has produced impoverished itinerants. Settlers grow rice, corn, coffee and manioc for a few years until the meager soil is exhausted, then move deeper into the forest to clear new land. The farming and burning thus become a perpetual cycle of depredation. Thousands of pioneers give up on farming altogether and migrate to the Amazon's new cities to find work. For many the net effect of the attempt to colonize Rondonia has been a shift from urban slums to Amazonian slums. Says Donald Sawyer, a demographer from the University of Minas Gerais...
...federal grand jury indicted three former top officials of a Chicago-based juice company, Bodine's Inc., for allegedly selling 7 million cases of adulterated frozen orange juice between 1983 and 1985. While the company labeled the juice "100% pure," the Food and Drug Administration says the product contained corn sugar, beet sugar, monosodium glutamate and effluent from a water-distillation process. The company allegedly used the ingredients because they were cheaper than the real thing and enabled Bodine's to offer lower prices to supermarkets. The adulteration stopped before the company changed hands in 1985, but the former executives...