Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rabid sexists, almost all of them will go through the motions of complying with the affirmative action regulations, and some of them may even say that in principle, affirmative action is a good thing. But somehow the ideology behind affirmative action hasn't really sunk in. Situations like this crop up: There was an opening in the History department and they were looking all over for a black woman to fill it. At every college, every university in the country, they looked for a black woman, but they just couldn't seem to find one that met their specifications. Sure...
...living costs means the U.S. is in for what Data Resources Inc. President Otto Eckstein calls "a new wave of inflation"; he expects it to last for six to twelve months. The experts' main dispute seems to be over the reasons for that wave. Though all agree that crop failures played a role, Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun cites such "self-inflicted wounds" as the Soviet grain sales and the coming abrupt decontrol of oil prices at the end of this month. Monetarists argue that the Federal Reserve's moderately easy money policy earlier this year is partly...
...inspire an extra effort down on the Kochenevsky state farm, the Communist Party has created a new title, "Hero of Threshing," which will be awarded for outstanding performance. Riding atop their huge Niva combines, Soviet farmers last week were rushing to harvest the grain crop, and from the Ukraine to Siberia, extra trucks were being pressed into service to speed the wheat, corn, rye and barley to storage areas before fall rains cause spoilage. Despite the frantic efforts, the Soviet harvest is expected to fall at least 25 to 30 million tons short of this year's goal...
...planners fouled up again this year. Under intense pressure from Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev to raise more grain for livestock, they set the total grain harvest goal at an overly optimistic level that would have nearly equaled the record 222 million tons achieved in 1973. Even if the present crop reaches only 180 million tons, it still would be the fourth largest Soviet harvest in history. But having allocated so much acreage for grain to be fed to cattle and poultry, Soviet planners now find that they did not have enough left over to comfortably feed the people...
...Rising grain prices. In response to the lower U.S. crop forecasts and early Soviet buys, grain and meat prices on the nation's futures markets are continuing to climb. Quotations for wheat and corn last week rose 5%; hog futures, a prime indicator of the anticipated price of corn, hit a record $1.05 per Ib. Agriculture Department experts think American farmers are holding some crops in storage waiting for still higher quotes, and these experts hope that release of the food will push prices down later this year. Meanwhile, though, retail food prices in June rose at an annual...