Word: crystallize
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...government restricts imports of raw sugar and provides cheap loans to farmers so they can market their beets when prices are highest. Last month the Government Accounting Office called the program a "cartel" that costs consumers $1.4 billion annually in higher sugar prices. Throughout the spring, officials from American Crystal Sugar, the large local beet cooperative, have made repeated trips to Washington to save some part of "the sugar program." Beet farmers in Fargo say their product can compete against unsubsidized beets anywhere. What they cannot do is survive without help against foreign sugar producers, who still get subsidies...
...Angeles Times reported last week that McVeigh frequented a house in Kingman where many people, including the suspect, bought, sold and used the drug crystal methamphetamine, a powerful form of speed increasingly popular in the area. If the allegation is true, it may explain how McVeigh was able to carry large amounts of cash and support himself without a job. According to Ralph McPeak, an associate of McVeigh's, many of these people fooled around with designing and detonating explosives. In February a bomb blew out the windows of McPeak's house; the authorities have not yet determined the origins...
Almost 10 years later, his wife, who never knew of Varenik's contacts with the Americans, still doesn't believe he was a double agent. "My husband was a man of crystal clarity who loved his country passionately," she says. "He was absolutely incapable of committing any treachery against his family and homeland." Like Aldrich Ames, he was capable of such things. Unlike his betrayer Aldrich Ames, he paid for it with his life...
DIED. ART FLEMING, 70, TV-game-show host; of pancreatic cancer; in Crystal River, Florida. Had his life been summed up in a Final Jeopardy answer, it would have gone something like this: "Though he appeared in close to 50 films, two TV series and one music video, he remains best known as the original host of this program." The son of parents who performed together as a dance team in Europe, Fleming helmed TV's toughest nonrigged game show from 1964 to 1975 and again in the 1978-79 season...
During the approximately 30 minute point-and-click presentation. Sarah comes of as unassuming and natural, aided perhaps by the fact that the interviews and the CD-ROM itself being put together by her best friend Crystal Heald. From her thoughts, in her gentle Candian accent, about the different cities on tour, to an amusing home video clip of Sarah playing the accordion (badly), the CD-ROM is a great chance for the fan to "get to know" McLachlan...