Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the best-fed, not to say most overfed, people in the world, Americans obviously have much to be grateful for in the farm program. Moreover, the U.S. is hardly the only nation that subsidizes its farmers; many foreign countries have even more elaborate arrangements-and higher food prices. But like any other set of rules that artificially tether free markets for a long time, Washington's agricultural policy has promoted distortions. Western farmers, for example, have been paid by the Government to irrigate formerly unusable land that the very next year was placed in a soil conservation...
...after giving them the word to proceed, after having them submit timetables and fairly detailed descriptions of their proposals, Saravelas told them that there was no money to implement their projects. Fed up with such treatment, three of the four staff members left the Bureau a short time later...
Halliday notched his second just 20 seconds after that and it looked as if the period would end in a deadlock. But Jim McMahon won a faceoff to the right of McQuiston at 19:08, fed it to Thorndike who was positioned out in front, Esposito style--and Ted put Harvard ahead once again...
...North Vietnamese were to mount another military offensive against South Viet Nam within six or eight months, they would have reason to fear U.S. bombing. But what if the crisis comes in two or three years-perhaps in the form of a coup or a Communist-fed revolt? Would the U.S. take military action to assist Thieu? It seems unlikely...
...Board has shown signs of squeezing the nation's money supply in an effort to control inflation from the top, thus driving up the cost of borrowing. In addition, investors feared that last year's higher-than-ex-pected trade deficit of $6.4 billion might encourage the Fed to allow interest rates to rise in order to keep dollars from flowing abroad...