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Only when Curry took the ball one-on-one to the hoop were the Crimson able to break the scoring drought as she hit on three consecutive drives to put the score at 43-37 with 3:05 remaining...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: 'Cliffe Cagers Whip Huskies, 57-53 | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

...main reason for Kirbo's decision is money. In 1975 Carter earned almost $120,000 from Carter's Warehouse, whose annual gross revenues hover around $1 million. Now harder times have come. Drought has savaged the nation's peanut crop, and business at the Carter plant is down 15% from last year. Billy Carter recently valued the business at $3.5 million, which would make the President's share worth roughly $2.3 million. As for an asking price, Kirbo says, "I'm going to get as much as I can. It will be strictly a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sale in Plains | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

When the two-year drought first parched much of the country in 1976, farmers cried that unless Washington came to their rescue they faced financial ruin. Congress obliged by making the farmers eligible for easy-to-get, easy-to-repay loans under the Small Business Administration's disaster relief program. Now farmers in some areas are afflicted not by drought but by harvests so bountiful that prices have fallen. So back to the trough of federal aid they have come-in a stampede. They have made such a run on the SBA farm loans that administrators who once budgeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: SBA No! | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Last summer Woody Diehl spent a lot of time in front of the picture window in the spacious living room of his wood and brick ranch house staring out at acres of corn stunted by drought. When the Diehls and eight other local farm families met with Carter next morning over coffee and rolls baked by a neighbor, the costly effects of central Iowa's drought were on all their minds. The group also discussed federal disaster assistance for farmers-Diehl himself will be eligible for payments this year-and the Administration's proposed feed-grains set-aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Carter Slept Here Too | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

None of the new immigrants, however, are as likely to succeed as the more farsighted speculators who are willing to bet on a black-inspired boom to come. The logic is fairly simple: if there is a peaceful transition to nationalist government, then the country's long economic drought under United Nations' sanctions will come abruptly to an end. Real estate, agriculture, tobacco, mining, even tourism-all should experience a quick revival. Companies from Stuttgart to Nagasaki have been sending semisecret scouting missions to Salisbury. "Zimbabwe is going to be the biggest boom country you've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Land of Opportunity | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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