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RUTGERS 35, CORNELL 12: After clobbering Princeton last Saturday, the Scarlet Knights get to fatten up on the Ivy League again today. The Big Red is this week's victim...
...interest costs, which the Federal Reserve pushed up again last week by raising the rate it charges member banks to 13%, have not slowed consumer spending. Moreover, mild winter weather has made it easier to go shopping and eased the strain on home heating budgets. This has helped to fatten consumer pocketbooks, enabling people to keep on spending though wages have not kept pace with inflation...
...high-protein food oil. This fall growers in North Dakota and adjacent states will harvest more than 5 million acres of what they call "flower," double last year's planting and 100 times as large as that of a decade ago. Some 75% of the crop, which will fatten farm incomes by $800 million this year, is sold in Europe and such distant markets as Egypt and Australia...
...stormy meetings, the OPEC ministers agreed to raise their prices for the second time in a little more than three months-on this occasion by 9%, bringing the cost of a barrel of the marker crude, Saudi Arabian light oil, to $14.55 per bbl. Though that alone would fatten OPEC'S already bulging bank accounts with an additional $20 billion annually from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, as well as more foreign exchange from the have-not nations of the Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever price-gouging surcharges...
...waste. The Garsts have promoted the idea of feeding cattle corn cobs, stalks and leaves that traditionally were thrown away; when this "stover" is mixed with other nutrients, the beasts love it. If this method became universal, Garst estimates, the U.S. could fatten 50% more cattle than the 110 million or so now in the national herd...