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...contract to build four turbine generators for a power station at Al Shemal, 240 miles north of Baghdad. Playing its small part in the worldwide sanctions against Iraq, the firm has announced layoffs of 650 workers. Near Beasley, Texas, Jack Wendt, who farms 1,500 acres of rice and grain, calculates that he will earn $72,000 less than in 1989 because of the sudden disappearance of the U.S. rice industry's best customer, Iraq. In Paris, Airbus Industrie has put on hold a deal to sell five A310 wide-body jets to Iraqi Airways at about $70 million...
Garry Wills has carved out a substantial career as a social critic by cutting against the ideological grain. Conservatives find him too liberal, and liberals complain that he is too conservative. Similarly, scholars think of Wills as a journalist, and journalists often feel that his work is unnecessarily academic...
...Right then another remarkable career may have been started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie society. Jackson, now one of the nation's most renowned and innovative agriculture researchers, founded the Land Institute in Salina, Kans., in search of perennial prairie grain crops that will halt the wasting of the planet...
...Gorbachev, Yeltsin felt, remains "open to dialogue" even if the relationship between the two rivals is "unstable." Not so magnanimous was Grigori Yavlinsky, a young economist who helped draft the 500-Day Plan. He offered to quit on the spot, arguing that the federal government's higher prices for grain procurement would lead to an inflation spiral. Yeltsin phrased that concern more colorfully not long ago. Trying to reconcile Kremlin caution with the market zeal of the republics, he said, is like "mating a hedgehog with a snake...
...most important renewable source is agriculture," said Gray, referring to ethanol, a fuel distilled from grain...