Word: farm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncritical acceptance" for a quarter-century is not quite correct. The procedure has been repeatedly challenged, as it should be. Numerous scientific articles on resistant intestinal bacteria in animals fed antibiotics have appeared, starting in the early 1950s. The puzzle is why the practice continues to be effective in farm animals when theories about resistance would have predicted the contrary...
...pension plan is having to pay soaring retirement costs. At Atlantic Richfield, the eighth largest U.S. oil company, the pension payout jumped from $60 million in 1976 to $80 million last year. The pension burden has become heaviest in the older capital-intensive industries such as steel, rubber and farm equipment, often because tough unions have increasingly asked for fringe benefits instead of simple wage hikes. Among other firms carrying particularly weighty pension loads are Uniroyal, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and the Budd Co. A great many other firms have not taken care to set sufficient money aside to pay fully...
...dismissing my question about life after the revolution with a wave of his knarled hand. For much of this century he tilled the land, and, like many Cubans, was able to work only sporadically. Now he is a member of the self-contained rural cooperative Jibacoa, a dairy farm outside Havana with its own shops, schools, and health care facilities. Farmers who decide to join these rural communities receive payment for the sale of their farms and move to the state farms, where they are paid by the state...
...Capehart, 82, three-term Republican Senator from Indiana (1945-63); from complications following a hip fracture; in Indianapolis. The son of a tenant farmer, Capehart made a fortune selling jukebox equipment and got into politics after organizing a 1938 "cornfield convention" of 20,000 Republicans. As Senator, he supported farm subsidies and helped establish the Small Business Administration. An enthusiastic McCarthyite, Capehart staked his 1962 senatorial campaign on a tough anti-Cuba stand ("invade or blockade") and lost narrowly to young Birch Bayh when President Kennedy's embargo of Cuba took away his thunder...
...human rights, was not even allowed in the country. And at the fair itself, inspectors ransacked exhibitions and carted off more than 50 books, most of them American. Some of the proscribed works had been put there as a challenge; no one was surprised at the confiscation of Animal Farm, George Orwell's savage parody of the Revolution, or Alexander Solzhenitsyn's three Gulags. But other excisions were mystifying. From the booth of the Association of Jewish Book Publishers, for example, inspectors confiscated a book of essays entitled The Holocaust Years, as well as ex-Israeli Ambassador Abba...