Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell displaced Clarkson (10-4), which played the victim in the upset of the year Saturday night. Vermont (1-12 entering the contest) took the Golden Knights, 3-1, in Potsdam...
MacDonalds' developers redesigned the Porter Square store after the board criticized their initial model for the storefront, said George. As it stands now, the store epitomizes MacDonalds "new look"--replete with popular wall hangings and a food bar where people cating alone can sit and, most importantly, without protruding golden arches...
...healthier in 1984 than at any other time in recent memory. The gross national product grew 6.8% during the year, for the largest increase since 1951. Inflation, meanwhile, was just 3.7% for the year as a whole, the lowest since 1967. Said Jones: "We may be entering a new golden age similar to the 1960s, when we had both low inflation and solid growth...
...origins of the lean years that now plague farmers go back to the fat ones of the 1970s. While that decade brought galloping inflation and uncomfortably high unemployment, it was nonetheless a golden age for agriculture. Farm exports, which amounted to just $7 billion in 1970, increased fivefold during the decade as the world developed a taste for American products. American farmland values zoomed as well. An average acre of Iowa land sold for $417 in 1970 but was worth $2,147 at the start of the '80s. Increasingly prosperous farmers borrowed heavily to buy additional acreage and new equipment...
Things are little better in California, which produces nearly half of America's fruits and vegetables. The Golden State's farm exports dropped 28% from 1981 to 1983, to $3 billion. Bob and Kathleen Hamada, who grow plums and seedless grapes for raisins on 100 acres in Kingsburg in the San Joaquin Valley, are typical of hard-pressed California farmers who have decided to call it quits. The Hamadas have been trying to sell their farm since mid-1983 but so far have attracted only nibbles. Kathleen, 23, has taken a part-time job as a cashier in a movie...