Word: corns
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Burke's influence comes by virtue of the unique bond she and Dole have developed through the 18 years in which she has carried out his will on issues as monumental as national health care and as close to home as ways to create an energy industry from Kansas corn. He was a relatively junior member of the Finance Committee when he hired Burke as a health-care-policy specialist, and nine years later he made her chief of staff. Earlier this year, after he offered her the prestigious but largely symbolic job of secretary of the Senate, her critics...
...alleged price-fixing scheme. But a federal grand jury in Chicago has cast a wide net to determine who might have participated. In recent weeks, the grand jury has subpoenaed possible evidence of collusion from agribusiness behemoths Cargill, CPC International and A.E. Staley. The products in question: high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener found in everything from Coca-Cola to cake; lysine, an amino acid used in feeding poultry and hogs; and citric acid, which adds tartness to jams and jellies, among many other uses. Some experts speculated that investigators are focusing on the possibility that ADM set predatory--meaning...
...largese, Andreas has often seemed to reap what he has sown. For example, ADM profits handsomely from federal programs that raise U.S. sugar prices above the world level, at an estimated cost to consumers of $1.4 billion a year. That creates a market for cheaper high-fructose corn syrup, which has all but replaced sugar as an ingredient in soft drinks. Such a sweet deal made the head of a Chicago commodities firm wonder last week: "If ADM owns the markets and laws, why would it need to fix prices...
Have you ever felt the warm Iowa night air touch your skin as Shoeless Joe shouts his timeless query at Ray Kinsella before disappearing back into the corn? Have you ever imagined yourself in darkened Knights Field, watching Roy Hobbs round third base? Do you share the certainty that Crash Davis will make it to The Show as a manager...
...appeals court overturned an Environmental Protection Agency regulation requiring that 30 percent of cleaner-burning gas be made up with ethanol, a corn-based oxygen additive that allows fuel to burn with less pollution. Ethanol is considered a more environmentally friendly product than alternative oxygenates butTIME science writer Eugene Lindensays, "This is not an anti-environmental ruling. It only challenges the EPA's right to dictate how those goals are achieved." Farmers had estimated that the required level of ethanol use would bring them up to $1.5 billion, but Linden suggests that there are other ways the government can encourage...