Word: farms
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...million and liabilities of $221,000, including $1,500 in unpaid bills, the President computed his net worth as of Jan. 1 at exactly $1,005,910.25. That was up from $795,357.74 a year earlier, chiefly because of the rising value of 2,000 acres of farm land that Carter owns in Sumter and Webster counties in southwestern Georgia. The President had a comfortable income last year of $267,195, including $250,000 in salary and expense money from the Government. His autobiography Why Not the Best? brought him more than $20,000 in royalties, most of which...
...strong team and their farm system isn't that good, but that could be a blessing in disguise since I might be able to rise a little more quickly in the major leagues," Stenhouse, an economics major, said. Although he's excited by the prospect of playing professional baseball, Stenhouse said he is planning to graduate from Harvard, either by completing two more fall semesters or by waiting until next year's draft pick and playing ball for Harvard next spring...
...growers constitute a mere one-half of 1% of all farm families, but propping up their prices last year cost taxpayers and consumers $2.6 billion in support payments and artificially high retail prices for the sweetener. The subsidy system has also created an ever growing Government stockpile of sugar, currently 193,000 tons, that now lies rotting in Florida and Texas warehouses...
...struggle over sugar is an embarrassment for Jimmy Carter. Eager to slow the rising cost of food, the Administration condemned the bill when it was introduced in the House last February by a coalition of farm-state legislators. But when sugar industry supporters in Congress threatened to retaliate by blocking approval of the international trade agreement that was endorsed last month in Geneva, the White House abruptly switched signals and said the President would support the bill. The turnabout left White House Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn in an impossible situation. Asked during House Agriculture Committee hearings if he considered...
...Lewis Grizzard, 32, sports editor of the Chicago Sun-Times before he began his column at the Atlanta Constitution two years ago. Since then Grizzard has written lightly about such matters as tennis etiquette ("Never wear hats advertising farm or earth-moving equipment or T shirts that say 'Let's boogie' "), advice to riders of subways ("Swallow your wallet before entering the train"), and his town's present appearance ("Atlanta looks like what Sherman would have left if he had been carrying bulldozers and jack-hammers"). Grizzard will begin syndication to half a dozen...