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...less active alkaloid than the more common coca variety cultivated in the Andes and yields less pure cocaine per kilo. But it costs the trafficker 60% less to buy and can sprout as many as 30 shoots, often very rapidly. "It's easier to grow than any other crop in the Amazon," says a U.S. embassy official. Brazil has also begun to master the more advanced stages of the trade. Last fall alone, twelve Brazilians were caught in the act of carrying cocaine to the U.S. Shipments of illegally imported processing chemicals have also been intercepted with increasing frequency. Most...
...Crop Loans. These are the basic price-support mechanism. After harvest, the Government lends a farmer money on his unsold crop at a rate set by the Agriculture Department under guidelines established by Congress. If the farmer can sell the crop for more money, he does, repays the loan and pockets the difference. But if market prices are low, the farmer keeps the loan money and the Government takes over the crop. The produce must be stored until it can be sold for more than the loan rate--which could be never...
Target Prices. These are set at levels that supposedly cover farm production costs but in fact are often determined by political negotiation. They are higher than the loan rates, in the case of 1985-crop wheat, $4.38 per bu. vs. $3.30. Growers who qualify, sometimes by agreeing to restrict production, sell their crops to private buyers. But if the market price falls below the target price, the Government makes up the difference with a cash "deficiency payment," up to a maximum representing the difference between the loan rate and the target price--$1.08 per bu. on 1985 wheat. The Administration...
...Administration would set a cap of $200,000 on crop loans to any one farmer. That would answer one frequent and justified criticism of present farm policies: they give the most help to the biggest farmers, who need it least...
These categories appear to crop up in different languages as well. The French call their dear ones cabbages, rabbits and casseroles. The Italians, little eggs. Nigerians refer to lovers as tigers, which is understandable, and as bedbugs, which are evidently cuter in Nigeria than they are elsewhere. The Chinese use the term little dog, and the Germans, little treasure. Littleness is the key to many of these expressions. For some reason the tendency in the language of love is to make less of the object of one's affections; it is quite common in most languages to add a diminutive...