Word: fallow
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...gaga post-teen now, though she is counted a member of the group of kinda talented, kinda famous young actors somewhat unfairly called the Brat Pack. She needs only a few credits for her bachelor's degree at the University of Southern California. A partly written novel lies fallow. Good sense rules her life, though she has been known to wander off go- cart driving with Brat Packers Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson (respectively, the jock and the punk of The Breakfast Club, and the waiter and Sheedy's lover of the hanging-out-after-college film St. Elmo...
...extending the theater's season four extra weeks, the HRDC expects to maximize the use of the space, which ordinarily lies fallow during that time...
...pare back subsidies over the next five years. It would slash price-support levels and phase out payments that now bolster the earnings of producers of such major commodities as wheat and corn. In addition, it would cut federal outlays to growers who are paid to leave their land fallow in order to hold down the supply of crops and thus keep prices firm...
Primitive farming techniques have raped the land of its natural fertility while under increasing presure to produce food for a booming population, traditional fallow periods have all but disappeared, wearing out the soil...
...temporary payment-in-kind (PIK) deal, which doled out accumulated Government grain and commodity stocks to farmers who agreed to keep some of their fields fallow, cost $9.7 billion in 1983. Last week the President recalled those and other Administration policies that helped farmers: lifting the embargo on grain exports to the Soviet Union, eliminating estate taxes for widowed spouses (important to land-rich farmers) and getting Japan to double its imports of American beef...