Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everything was fine, but the Dodge was in a ditch. A patrol car came by and pulled them back to the road. You have any controlled substances, any firearms? No, said Rick. You're no fun, said the patrolman, climbing into his car and leading the way through the corn fields...
Plants store carbon in the form of carbohydrates that can easily be converted by fermentation into alcohol, a convenient liquid form of fuel, Calvin said. This process has worked successfully for sugar cane in Brazil and corn crops in the United states, he added...
Answering the charge made by the Mobil oil corporation that the cost of producing fuel from plants is too expensive, Calvin said after his lecture that Mobil ignored the possibility of energy production from the corn stalks and cobs...
...Chinese embassy in Washington said that the "matter is still under consideration" and that he is still waiting for orders from Peking. Meanwhile, Joyce said, he is "tired of feeding the bull," which since Deng's visit has gained 400 lbs. on a $2.50-a-day diet of corn, cottonseed hulls, molasses, oats and a protein supplement...
Throughout history, controls have seemed a tempting quick fix for inflation. Nearly 40 centuries ago, the Babylonian King Hammurabi established wage and price limits. They set, for example, the annual wage of a field worker at eight gur (75 bu.) of corn and that of a herdsman at six gur (56.25 bu.). The Roman Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 301 published official price lists that included artichokes and transportation by camel; any gougers were executed. The most recent American experience with general controls was President Nixon's 1971-74 program of freezes, followed by varying degrees of restraint...