Word: feed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, grain and soybean shipments abroad (an anticipated 89 million metric tons in 1977) are expected to drop by 10% to 15% next year. Says Don Howe, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers: "Even if there was a total crop failure in America, we could still feed the entire country and maintain our commitments abroad for at least a year...
...crustaceans are being marketed nationwide by The Great American Crab Co., Inc. of Orlando, Fla., which boasts it will sell some 750,000 in its first year. They will eat peanut butter and jelly, dog food, cereal, lettuce or fruit, though GAC would naturally prefer to have crab fanciers feed them its "special dinner mix" at $2 per 3-oz. shaker. Many owners buy fancy shells to serve as crab pads, coral trees for them to play in and, of course, leashes. Though they have less personality than, say, dolphins, fond owners aver that they are never crabby...
...Worldwatch Institute estimates that the lives of perhaps 50 million people are jeopardized. As their fields and pastures become no man's lands, the dispossessed add to the tide of ecological refugees who have already swollen the Third World's ranks of unemployed and destitute. Unable to feed themselves, they place new strains on the food supply and create a tinderbox for social unrest. Warns U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim: "We risk destroying whole peoples in the afflicted area...
...Israelis not only have restored some of the water collection systems left by the ancient Nabateans in the Negev desert, but are letting the runoff nourish flourishing orchards of almond and pistachio trees. Another strategy for making the Negev bloom: drip irrigation systems that feed small amounts of water directly to the roots of plants with the help of computer monitors...
...real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week, teaching them good values." The speaker is New York Knicks Forward Spencer Haywood, who left his home town of Silver City, Miss., at age 14 because there wasn't enough money to feed the ten kids in his family. At age 28, Haywood is trying to impart some "good values" to children in Manhattan's poor neighborhoods. His method? A basketball clinic where he teaches boys and girls aged ten to 17 about fair play on and off the court. At a session...