Word: feed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every shepherd these days is out tending his flocks in a field. To produce a more perfect wool, some Australian farmers are keeping their sheep indoors and pampering them like Park Avenue poodles. They provide tires, logs and rubber balls to keep the sheep amused, feed them a vitamin-enriched mix instead of letting them graze, and even wrap them in cloaks to protect their fleece from dirt...
...three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.' He was right, so I don't involve myself in politics. Of course, we presumed Chernenko was ill, but who knew how ill? They don't give health bulletins here, you know. This isn't America; we feed on news from the grapevine. So it was a surprise to hear he had actually died. Still, things haven't changed much since the Stalin days. Ever since, we have had a more or less collectivized government leadership, and things seem to jog along comfortably enough. Who expects changes...
...making the sort of record that British rockers had released on behalf of Ethiopian relief during the holiday season, Do They Know It's Christmas? Kragen calculates, conservatively, that USA for Africa could pull in $50 million. But, he cautions, "more than a billion dollars is needed just to feed people in Africa this year...
...from the U.S., in the period from July 1984 through June 1985, an increase of 52% over the previous year. Says Olin Robison, president of Middlebury College in Vermont and a Soviet expert: "A very sad fact about Soviet agriculture is that it really does produce enough food to feed the people. But the methods of preserving, transporting and distributing that food are so archaic that the losses are phenomenal...
Months ago when Mikhail Gorbachev began to move more visibly around the power circuit of the Soviet Union, U.S. intelligence analysts started to feed background on him into Ronald Reagan's morning reading. There was an assumption among the experts that something was bubbling up in the Kremlin's gerontocracy, whose members were expiring with discouraging regularity. After 67 years there were signs that the old group of Soviet leaders, steeped in the traditions of the revolution and shaped by the horrors of World War II, was giving way to a new generation...