Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years as a Congressman and six as a Senator from Iowa, the beefy Culver, 48, is running for re-election with all of the ferocity that he once showed on the gridiron. His opponent this time is not simply mild-mannered Republican Charles Grassley, 47, a conservative Congressman and corn farmer, but the entire New Right-the antiabortion, anti-liberal and conservative-evangelical Christian groups that have put Culver on their nationwide hit list...
...agree or disagree: Most faculty members here are strongly interested in the academic problems of undergraduates. [all figures are percentages] Agree Disagree Hvrd. 42.3 49 Brwn. 76.2 16.3 Penn. 53.5 37.5 Corn...
...happy with the social life at school? Satisfied Dissatisfied Hvrd. 76.9 22.3 Brwn. 77.8 21 Penn. 81.4 17.6 Corn...
...Funding for Research. Without vigorous, farsighted and continuing encouragement of scientific research, we are in the position of eating our seed corn: we may fend off starvation for one more winter, but we have removed the last hope of surviving the following winter...
...wisdom of John Anderson's call for a 50?-per-gal. gasoline tax, but how to pay this winter's heating-oil bill. Meanwhile, Roger Christensen, an Ogden, Iowa, hog farmer, finds wild gyrations in interest rates to be his trouble. He finances poultry, pork and corn production with variable interest rate bank loans, and consequently no longer knows what his overhead will be from one season to the next. Says he: "I don't think the average voter can understand the economy, and I certainly don't have the solutions. But no candidate is even...