Word: fallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason for spirits to falter. The News lost $12.6 million in 1981, and its owner, the Chicago-based Tribune Co., estimated that losses could more than double in succeeding years. Unwilling to battle that trend, the Tribune Co. put the paper up for sale last Dec. 18. After three fallow months, the company announced that Texas Wheeler-Dealer Joe L. Allbritton was "buyer of last resort." But when Allbritton demanded a wage rollback and a one-third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone braced for the final step in a grim...
...bitter irony to the farmers at nearby El Canadá, a cooperative set up under an ambitious land reform program begun two years ago. It is planting time at El Canadá, but the cooperative has been unable to obtain credit to buy seed and fertilizer. The fields are fallow, the oxen idle. No one has yet received a day's pay. Unless the tomato and corn crops are planted in the next week or two, there will be no harvest this year...
...will amount to approximately one quarter the sum of the arms trade, offers the Administration the opportunity of making viable allies instead of arms customers. No American governments should be party to the perversity of Third World dictators, who spend billions of dollars on armaments while their land lies fallow and their people starve...
Coddington estimated that approximately 20,000 discoveries are "lying fallow" because private industry is hesitant to invest in government-owned patents, to which they cannot obtain exclusive rights...
...experiment. He buried 20 pint-size bottles, each containing 1,000 seeds of 20 weed varieties, near his lab in East Lansing, Mich. His aim, in that age before weedkillers: to find out how long plowed-under seeds could survive, and thus, how long fields needed to be left fallow, to ensure a weed-free crop when replanted...