Word: feed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feed the alumni, Harvard Dining Serviceswill cater dishes from beef and veal to coldcucumber soup. On Saturday night, alumni living inthe nine river houses will get a special treat:shrimp cocktail, roast beef bernaise and GrandMarnier chocolate cake...
...Mexico game and fish department officials believe the bears may be wandering farther afield this year in the wake of a late frost that killed off part of the berry crop they usually feed on. Hunters attribute the problem to overpopulation, the result of a shortened spring hunting season. Whatever the cause, scouts at Philmont are stuffing gunnysacks with food and other odorous goodies and hanging them on trees far from the tents. The name for these odd articles? Bear bags, of course...
...host farmer and some Soviets fielded questions. Can peace be achieved? "There's no reason anybody can't have peace, no reason an agreement can't be reached on anything," Bradley offered. Sivolap agreed. Can the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. work together to feed the world's hungry? "We could have so much more peace with a full stomach than a hungry one. We have hungry people in this nation, and we could feed them," Bradley said, furrowing his brow in a look of disgust. "But there is politics, and corruption." Afterward, three game Soviets took turns roaring down...
...Paine, NASA's boss when we landed on the moon, came through the capital last week, echoing the same dim thoughts. NASA has tried to do too much with too little. Its $7.7 billion budget is not chicken feed. But it is not much; after all, we are spending $25 billion for subsidies that are not solving the farm problem. A NASA budget of $10 billion or even $20 billion, taken from other places, is perfectly parsimonious considering the dividends...
Other vast surpluses abound. At the beginning of last month, the U.S. held 1.9 billion bu. of wheat, a record overstock, and 847 million bu. of soybeans, almost 40% more than at the same time last year. Kansas alone held 178.8 million bu. of grain sorghum, a livestock feed, almost 80% more than in June 1985. The U.S. is producing a huge excess of milk as well, a problem reduced only partly by the USDA's program this year to pay thousands of dairy farmers some $1.8 billion to send their herds to slaughter or export markets...