Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Bradley, former Princeton star and present forward for the New York Knicks, started the influx nine years ago when he led Simmenthal of Milan to a European championship while attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Some of the current crop of imports are also well known back home: Tom McMillen, the 6-ft. 11-in. star for the University of Maryland last year, continues the Bradley tradition by commuting from Oxford to play weekly games for Sinudyne of Bologna. Jim McDaniels, who plays for Snaidero of Udine, was once a high-priced player for the Seattle Supersonics...
...Crop. The downtrend of 1973 was a result of Turkey's ban on the cultivation of the opium-poppy plant, which had been the source of 80% of the heroin in the U.S. But last July Turkey lifted the prohibition. Growers planted a new crop this fall for harvest next June...
European heroin dealers, who had stockpiled their remaining stashes of Turkish heroin in view of the shortage, released their goods in anticipation of renewed supplies from the coming harvest. Despite Turkish pledges to control processing of the new crop, U.S. drug enforcers predicted a serious increase in available heroin on American streets...
...limiting the number of abandoned pets." Nonsense! The type that would use a clinic would not abandon animals and vice versa. Spaying clinics are all underutilized, even where "binding" contracts for sterilizing are signed at the time of pet purchase. The fact that a vast majority of the puppy crop comes from the middle and upper classes of society means that the whole issue of tax-subsidized pet ownership has to be re-evaluated...
...kept poor blacks and whites fighting for its leavings, these people helped to nourish the roots of racism, even though they discriminated only in the most genteel ways--much like Harvard today, with its fashionably mild distaste for the Afro-American Studies Department and its yearly production of a crop of youth to fill the houses of suburbia. If Saturday's student marchers end up as part of that crop of youth, the march--though it will still have an immediate impact, and still be important--will also deserve all the labels its opponents will undoubtedly pin on it anyway...