Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right, gentlemen, let's start," shouts Treasury Secretary William Simon, the chairman, who still has a whiff of the Wall Street buccaneer about him. For the next 15 or 30 minutes they take the economic pulse all the way from the condition of the winter-wheat crop (better than expected) to the state of mind of Teamster Top Dog Frank Fitzsimmons (angry over NBC's scathing profile of him). Then, at least once a week, their findings, their moods, their urgings, are conveyed to the President...
...Crop. The dynamics of U.S. food production has not been so balanced in favor of the consumer since 1971. Dairy prices have gone up 6.5% in recent months, but a decline soon is almost assured because milk production is rising; butter and milk prices are beginning to slide at the wholesale level. Bountiful supplies are also depressing poultry prices. By late summer, say economists, the cost of pork should tumble as more of the big crop of hogs farrowed last winter comes to market. Canners' and distributors' stocks of most fruits and vegetables are large, and in some...
What could upset the relatively pleasing picture? A weather disaster affecting this year's corn, wheat or soybean crops could do it, but the impact would not be noticeable on market shelves until 1977. Although many farmers from Iowa to Texas are worried about a drought, and there has been some damage to the winter wheat crop, grain prices have so far been only slightly affected. The outlook is for continued calm, with the main beneficiaries-in this election year-being the millions of middle-and lower-income families that spend more of their available cash on food than...
Were it not for the new equal access policy and the resulting 1.9:1 sex ratio, the large crop of Chicanos admitted to next year's class would have been the success story of the class of 1980. Byerly Hall admitted 32 Chicanos to next year's freshman class, nearly double the 18 accepted last year, and the largest number of Mexican-Americans ever admitted. These totals are the product of an intense recruitment effort that was unique in many ways, most notably the role undergraduates played...
...American Literature and a student of Miller's, has discussed the "declension" of Massachusetts Bay Puritanism in terms of its shift in emphasis from spiritual well-being to material prosperity--a shift reflected by the jeremiads, sermons of the 1660s that preach virtue as a means of averting crop failure...