Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s the Agriculture Department bought farmers' surpluses and stored them temporarily in huge and expensive granaries. The department also paid farmers millions to take some of their land out of production?perhaps the biggest and most expensive support program the U.S. ever had. This all changed when Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz took advantage of the worldwide grain shortage to sell the Government's storage facilities and urged farmers to plant from "fence post to fence post." At the same time, Congress rewrote the farm-support law so that nearly all crops would end up being sold on the private market...
Ariel Chamber Ensemble--Earl Kim, conductor; Hermione Gingold, narrator; works of Bach, Walton and Schumann; Sanders Theater...
...which blows over New Haven. Plant officials term the meltdown a "routine operating failure, one that proves the safety of nuclear power because 60 per cent of the concrete wall remained unaffected." The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announces the formation of a review committee headed by former Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...investigating committee headed by Earl Warren brings in its report on the Connecticut Yankee meltdown. The report claims that a single neutron which passed through all 54 graphite damping rods, the containment vessel, the cooling system and 3 technicians caused the chain reaction leading the the meltdown...