Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rolltop desk in his small study. There Benedict goes over computer print-outs analyzing his plantings acre by acre: inputs of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, machine time; output in bushels and dollars. He draws up precise operating schedules for his half-million dollars' worth of machinery; after all, every gallon of fuel saved adds a few more cents to profit. His print-outs also help him ponder marketing strategy (when should he time the sale of his crops to get the best price?) and financial problems (how can he distribute the stock in his family corporation so that his wife...
...control passes to the workers. France's Paris-centered government is decentralized with the creation of new regional assemblies with broad local powers, including taxation. Welfare benefits are increased. To encourage public transportation, the Mètro becomes free and the price of gasoline rises to $7.20 a gallon. All high school graduates are required to work for two years before attending university. "Expect less from government and more from yourselves," Rocard exhorts the citizenry in launching what an awed U.S. visitor-California's Jerry Brown-hails as "the New French Revolution...
...woman reached by telephone describes what is happening: 'We live in the cellar of our building. There are some nuns with us and they pray, but the bombs keep falling. We finished our last tin of corned beef -one spoonful for each person. There is only half a gallon of water left, but we don't dare go up into the streets. When a dying dog came into our shelter, a boy said he would take it away and bury it. His mother told him not to, but he wouldn't listen. He picked...
David Grover Gallon, Ohio...
...homemade' definition is a fine point," McCallum said. "I'm not sure about the meaning of 'on the premises.' The Attorney General's thought doesn't mean that much; "homemade" is how much you make. It means not being a commercial operator throwing out 500 gallon vats," he said...