Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position to stand against a $1 billion water project. The village is set in the middle of what the inhabitants proudly refer to as Poor Valley. The soil is rocky and hard to farm. Most families cultivate an acre or so of tobacco, the town's only cash crop, and a vegetable patch, with a little meager grazing land for a few cows. The families in the scattering of wooden houses and log cabins have a median income of about $6,000 a year. To eke out a living, many men have had to work outside the Gap, some...
...A.A.M. wants crop prices raised to 90% of "parity," an antiquated concept founded on the argument that farm prices should have been rising as fast as nonfarm prices since World War I. Agriculture Department economists scoff at this demand; they say that 90% parity would drive retail food prices -the biggest single factor in the U.S.'s inflation problem -up by 16% this year, on top of the 10% increase...
...cream of the contemporary crop of slogans is still found in the creations of the advertising trade, which of course was the first to exploit psychology and behaviorism to turn the art of persuasion into a quasi-science. The success of its catchwords is confirmed by retail sales figures that make even the national deficit seem a trifle...
...Iran's poorest areas. Fifty years ago, Khomein was controlled by landlords. A peasant who herded sheep was paid 30 rials, the equivalent of half a dollar, for a year's work. Tenant farmers who came to the area were given quotas to meet: often their entire crop of wheat was for the landlord, with nothing left over to make bread of their own. Mrs. Mokhtari remembers that the Ayatullah's grandfather and father were "always the dissenters, the militants." They allowed poorer farmers to take produce from their own lands, persuaded richer tenants to share their...
...comes in many varieties. The "catadores, "or crop tasters, report that although Santa Marta Gold is still the most famous of the Colombian line, the Arhuaco Indians in the higher altitudes are growing an even more potent variety of pot: Mona (blond) plants so pale that they look bleached. The Cielo Azul heights produce a pale plant known as Blue Sky Blond, developed as a hybrid two years ago with seeds from Thailand. Even the arid and low-lying fields of the Guajira peninsula, which are irrigated and farmed with tractors, grow a good green grass. The broiling sun forces...