Word: farm
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...take a special pledge of loyalty to the party, the government and Deng's modernization program. To save money and to lessen tensions with the Soviet Union, the P.L.A. was trimmed from a peak strength of 4.5 million to its present level of 3.2 million. The increasing prosperity of farm life means that the army has been forced to enlist more urban youth, who are more inclined to question orders. Despite such lures as family benefits and monthly bonuses, local officials often find it difficult to produce their annual quota of recruits. As a result, some | communities have begun...
...office wall (a warm reminder of the good old days when The Enemy looked the part), I am a cold warrior who does not mourn the passing of the great twilight struggle. The cold war made thinking simpler in a "four legs good, two legs bad" (the Animal Farm axiom) sort of way. But simpler doesn't mean better. There could be no happier outcome for the cold war than for us to win it and for old cold warriors to face the invigorating challenge of rethinking from the ground up what America's role in the world...
There are several species of snowbirds: "boondockers," like Bloomquist and her husband Len, 75, a retired farm-equipment dealer, park their mobile homes and set up housekeeping; "tailgaters," who use their vehicles as shops on wheels, selling all manner of goods; and "tourists," who just drive around. Quartzsite is not the only winter oasis that attracts such migrants. According to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association, some half a million Americans go south each winter in motor homes, most to established cities in Florida, Texas and Arizona. Quartzsite is for those who prefer to rough...
...President last week overrode a National Security Council recommendation, and his own general opposition to farm-trade supports, to approve a federally subsidized sale of $250 million worth of American wheat to the Soviet Union. But according to farm-state Congressmen, he made the $12 million subsidy available on only half the wheat the Soviets wanted to buy. The White House denies that, but such a move would be a typical Bush half-a- loaf compromise between the views of the Agriculture Department, which wants to assist U.S. farmers in competing against European export subsidies, and the NSC, which contends...
Even the Soviet air force is getting into the act. Last week TASS reported that 60 military planes have been commissioned to speed produce from the southern farm belt to major cities. Said Colonel General Vyacheslav Yefanov, chief of Military Transport Aviation: "Combat readiness will by no means be reduced." But the long lines at the grocery store...