Word: corns
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...this, the so-called TARP (the Troubled Asset Relief Program) was going to be used to buy bad assets from financial institutions. Those institutions could then be recapitalized and, with their balance sheets repaired, set about lending again to qualified individuals and businesses, providing the economy with the seed corn it needs to grow. Then, a couple of weeks ago, Secretary Paulson said that that wasn't going to be how the TARP funds would be used. He announced, in effect, that the TARP was going to be rolled up, having not spent some $300 billion in funds that Congress...
...There are more people coming each year and they are learning," she said, between hawking flimsy plastic plates loaded down with juicy kebabs, potato slices and sections of large-kernel corn. "These bullfights are not for everyone, but they are part...
...course it is - farmers own tons of acres; but let's see you try to operate your business when all that net worth is tied up in land. In addition, he claims, "the biofuel boom is also jacking up the price of grain." Yet the price of corn has fallen at least 50% since its peak. Revising the bill is a good idea, but in doing so, we must realize that we will make food more expensive, since some farms will go broke. Sometimes these issues aren't so black and white. Matthew Bernhardt, LINCOLN...
Though more than 30 million live Christmas trees are sold in the U.S. every year, almost all Christmas trees are raised on commercial farms--which makes them a renewable resource more akin to a stalk of corn than to a wild Douglas fir in the forest. When a yule tree is chopped down and sold, farms will plant another one in its place, making that part of the process carbon-neutral. The fossil fuel burned to transport the trees from farm to hearth is another matter. But given that most artificial trees are manufactured and shipped from China, fakes have...
...latest bid to combat rising food costs and economic uncertainty, South Korean natural-resource-development company Daewoo Logistics said on Nov. 19 that it signed a 99-year lease to farm oil palms and corn on more than 2.5 million acres of land in Madagascar. A Madagascar land minister refuted the claim, however, saying the agreement allowed Daewoo only the right to search for about 250,000 acres of arable farmland. Other countries being scouted...