Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black, 24. And eventually Bobby and Emily began to agree with each other. Last week the couple announced that they would be wed on March 6. Young Bobby is the son of Ethel and the late Robert Kennedy, and the nephew of President John Kennedy. Emily is the blossomy, corn-fed daughter of a Bloomington, Ind., lumberman. Said Bobby: "My father won Indiana in 1968, and her mother is a Democrat who voted for him. I checked that fact out before I popped the question...
...harvest of cash and corn beckons microbiology and business
...learn to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the past 11,000." So says Corn Geneticist Ronald Phillips of the University of Minnesota. Can it be done, especially since the so-called Green Revolution has just about run out of steam? The answer may lie in the fact that a second Green Revolution, powered by the wonders of genetic engineering, has been gathering impetus for some time and now seems within reach...
...write their own ticket." In California venture capitalists have provided "seed" money for Calgene in Davis and Phytogene in Pasadena. In St. Louis Monsanto has just added a gleaming molecular biology center to its agricultural research facilities. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the nation's top breeder of seed corn, has broken ground for its own high-tech molecular biology lab in Des Moines...
Cafeteria Manager Wanda Gillespie notes that Eastman has a special problem: "A lot of kids don't get this type of food at home. It takes a while for them to accept normal American things like apple sauce or mixed peas and corn." Gillespie tries, within Government requirements, to serve foods closer to the Latin taste, such as pizza and burritos...