Word: earl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned, Susan Ford can do anything she wants. I just wish her dad would fire Earl Butz...
...department in effect halted further sales to the Russians last month so that it could gauge the size of the U.S. harvest. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz has said that Soviet purchases so far will lift retail food prices, already up 3.8% since January, by no more than another 1.5%; he now believes that the Russians could buy another 10 million tons without increasing prices much further. Meanwhile, some Administration economists fear that this year's grain sales could lead to a price surge in 1976. If grain stocks are low going into the new year and something should then...
...Criticism. The department's statements seemed inspired partly by eagerness to counter sharpening criticism of sales of U.S. grain to the Soviets, and they did not wholly succeed. Department officials say the main impact of the Soviet purchases on U.S. prices will come in 1976, but Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and department economists concede that additional Russian buying will ultimately raise consumer food prices by more than 1.5 percentage points...
...shortfall, the second major Soviet grain crisis in the past four years, raises a basic question that has bedeviled the commissars since Lenin's days: Why is the Soviet Union unable to feed itself? U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz last week had a ready explanation: "There is no greater folly than to try to dictate agriculture policy from the political arena. Centralized decision making doesn't work-it never has and it never will...
...almost surely will not get their way completely. To the displeasure of U.S. farmers eager to make more big sales, the Soviets in effect will be rationed to a portion of their wants-how large a portion, the Ford Administration must soon make up its mind. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz last week renewed a request to all U.S. grain exporters to refrain from negotiating any more sales to Moscow until further notice. (The Administration has no statutory authority to order such a suspension, but grain-export companies obey Washington's wishes.) The notice is not likely to come...