Word: crop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many as 150 F-16 fighters to Taiwan despite a longstanding policy against such sales -- and despite a predictable explosion from Beijing, a regime Bush has taken considerable pains to cultivate. In Humbolt, South Dakota, and Shallowater, Texas, the President announced the release of $755 million in crop disaster relief, as well as $1 billion in export subsidies for U.S. wheat farmers...
...second economy is endlessly inventive. It embraces everything from street vendors selling cigarettes and candy in a Dar es Salaam market to the intricate border smuggling of Zambian gemstones. At least 10 million of 26 million Kenyans make a living from small-scale cash-crop farming, carpentry, metalworking, tailoring, illicit brewing and running private transport. Secondhand clothes are imported from Europe and America and sold by the roadside. Packing cases are fashioned into furniture. Oil drums are made into roofing sheets, frying pans, barbecues, stoves, knives and lamps. Cars that cannot be repaired are salvaged piecemeal and turned into donkey...
...President series revisited. For one thing, Cramer views the overpaid and overpraised parade of pollsters and media advisers as a comic chorus to be irreverently dismissed as "wise guys," "Big Guys," "killers" and (his sobriquet for the Bush team) "White Guys." Unlike the sainted Teddy White and the current crop of political reporters who grew up on his mythmaking, Cramer loathes, not loves, the modern political process...
...least half the nation's suicides -- that represents mental health's greatest success story. The condition once called melancholia, and now better known as clinical or major depression, has been the target of an all-fronts research assault over the past decade. The immediate result is a crop of new, highly specific antidepressant drugs that offer fast relief with relatively few side effects. Today depression can be treated -- quickly and effectively -- in 7 cases out of 10. If a second round of treatment is required, the cure rate jumps...
...line is good for something, though. Thecoach of the varsity crew team shows up to checkout the new crop of first-years, zeroing in on thetallest ones who just might be interested inrising at 5 a.m. to row on the chilly Charles.Short students will be asked to be coxswains.Average-heighted students will be ignored...