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Moreover, running for reelection would mean an increased schedule of campaigning and travelling, and a large cutback in the amount of time the President and his wife take for vacation...
...rise in sea levels of 2 feet by 2025 (thereby inundating some low-lying areas in coastal cities such as Charleston, S.C., and Galveston, Texas); and drastically changing rainfall patterns, especially in the breadbasket areas of the Midwest, where reduced precipitation could jeopardize crops. Nothing, not even a sharp cutback in the use of fossil fuels, the EPA added, could alter this climatic course...
...Cubans dominated Grenada, it would have caused them more problems and that's why they wanted military intervention. I think one beneficial, long-term effect is that it will have a chilling effect on the Cubans and on the Nicaraguans. The Nicaraguans were kind of scared by the cutback. It will give the Cubans something to think about, and give their potential allies in the Caribbean and in Central America something to think about. And that's good. It's interesting to see where the criticism of this comes from. It comes from Latin America. Most Latin American states...
...large brown patches of stubble-studded earth interrupt shimmering golden carpets of ripening winter wheat. In Nebraska, idle center-pivot sprinklers stand like outsize scarecrows over many once verdant cornfields. In California, more than half of the acreage normally devoted to rice lies uncultivated. The cause of the crop cutback is not drought or disaster but a new federal program that rewards farmers, partly in cash and partly in grain and cotton, for taking large tracts of land out of production. Called payment in kind (PIK), the program aims to invigorate the wilted farm economy by reducing bin-busting surpluses...
...billion in 1982) to strengthen its cash position, partly owing to Western confidence in Fekete's economic management. The country last year joined the International Monetary Fund, and it has since met the organization's stiff loan requirements. Hungary succeeded through an austerity program that included a cutback in imports and sharply increased prices for consumer goods like gasoline...