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...thing that impressed me the most," he said yesterday, referring to an account of the program in yesterday's New York Times, "was that China had a good crop, that the standard of living of the peasantry was being maintained...
...weeks from now, Ted Eriksen, the Mendocino County, Calif., agricultural commissioner, will publish his annual crop report. It will be seriously in error-not for any lack of meticulousness on Eriksen's part, but because his bosses will not let him mention marijuana...
...last year's report, Eriksen matter-of-factly stated that pot patches provided far more farm income in Mendocino County-he estimated 1979's harvest at $90 million-than any other cultivated crop. Says Eriksen: "I thought it was a realistic thing to do." The county board of supervisors did not: when the smoke cleared, Eriksen had torn the offending page from every copy of his findings and promised never to report on m--a again. So this year, wine grapes will be called the county's biggest agricultural moneymaker. But that is a politician...
...goes well, the pre-interview reception will give recruiter and student a good exposure to each other. Then, during the 30 minutes allotted for each interview, they can, in one interviewer's words, "concentrate on the business at hand": obtaining the cream of the B-School crop, which will eventually oversee Exxon's corporate empire...
...also what an economist friend of Goodman's calls "exogenous variables," unexpected occurrences that mess up neat computer models. During the '70s, for example, there was a big jump in the cost of grain after the Soviets had to buy in the U.S. to offset their own crop failure. Hamburgers went up too, when billions of fish that would have been ground up as cattle feed disappeared from the waters off Peru...