Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quotas would be too protectionist. Instead, he ordered a 2?-per-lb. subsidy, which was supposed to enable efficient domestic producers to make a profit on their crops. But the nation's 5,000 sugarcane and 15,000 sugar-beet growers found that world prices were continuing to drop so fast that even with the subsidy they were losing money. At the same time, the major sugar-user firms, such as the Coca-Cola Co., General Foods Corp. and Nestlé Alimentana, were more than happy with Carter's program because it kept prices low and increased their...
...next day Bergland warned Agricultural Committee Chairmen Thomas Foley in the House and Herman Talmadge in the Senate that the President would veto the farm bill if a joint conference committee did not drop the amendment. Three days before Bergland passed along the veto threat, the leading sugar-user spokesman, Coca-Cola's chief purchaser, John Mount, remarked to a group of colleagues while they were having drinks at the bar of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel: "If we cannot prevail in conference, we will just have to call in a few chits and have the President veto...
...study by the newsmagazine Le Point found him to be the least effective of 228 majority members of the legislature. His Oise constituency's steady march leftward prompted Hersant to seek election this time from solidly conservative Neuilly. The incumbent, Gaullist Florence d'Harcourt, was expected to drop out of the race...
...production this small, where a critic cannot spread the blame around, or perhaps mitigate his criticism by citing a strong chorus. Maybe that is why the small opening-night audience applauded so enthusiastically--because, what the hell, those guys worked up quite a sweat, and they didn't drop a line. But "workmanlike" should be the last adjective that Anthony Shaffer's scintillating thriller-symphony evokes. A pity, but all too literally, this Sleuth substitutes "uh-lan" for elan...
...about it at all. The subject of "Torse," for instance, is change of weight: the disturbance of symmetry when weight shifts from one foot to another, the still points of fragile equilibrium when a dancer balances on one leg, the other crooked in the air behind her. Like a drop of oil spreading through cloth, the point of focus begins to color one's perception of all kinds of movement: a jump becomes weight gathered down and exploded upward; one dancer lifting another becomes weight gliding in slow motion, a leisurely delighting in the measure of lift and rest...