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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price effects of the long-term agreement will depend on how much the Soviets actually buy, the size of U.S. crops and the amount of grain exported to other countries. Knowledge that the Soviets will be in the market could keep prices a bit higher than they otherwise would be; on the other hand, spreading out Soviet purchases should avoid the sharp price jumps that occur when they are bunched into short periods...
...counterattack began in 1968, when many important Wall Street brokers began worrying about the effects of the Vietnam War on the nation's economy. Sale makes the generalization that cowboys are more concerned about inflation, which threatens to reduce the level of government funding, than yankees, whose manufactured products depend on the purchasing power of the general public, making them more fearful of a recession...
...dictatorships abroad provided they are pro-American," he told a gathering in London. He also called détente a "highfalutin word. They ought to say 'get-together.' While we have so-called détente with the Soviet Union, we should recognize that we cannot necessarily depend on what they say. I think they have out-détented us." A British listener commented that Wallace "seemed to be trying to position himself where Scoop Jackson is, but he hasn't learned the names of the horses yet." In Brussels, Wallace discussed military issues with...
Most of the current testing of new compounds is done by manufacturers. If their record is spotty, it is at least partially due to the difficulty of setting up foolproof test procedures. The tests depend largely on interpreting how results in laboratory animals will apply to man, and they usually fail to take into account synergistic effects (a seemingly benign substance, combined with other compounds in the environment, sometimes becomes hazardous). The chemical industry is moving to correct the situation. Eleven of the biggest companies have pledged $12 million to start a Chemical Institute of Toxicology to work out better...
...groove encodes the sound; as the pickup needle runs over its "hills and dales," the needle is forced to vibrate at the same frequencies as the recorded sound. Translated into electrical pulses and amplified, the vibrations drive the loudspeaker. By contrast, RCA's SelectaVision does not depend on mechanical vibrations. The disc's groove serves only to guide a sapphire stylus over a series of irregularly spaced slots in the groove. The slots are so small (up to 84,000 per in.) that they must be etched into the master disc by an extremely fine, high-powered beam...