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...Gilbert joined the Harvard Economic Advisory Service (HEAS) with hopes of putting his economic philosophies into practice. As director of the HEAS mission in Pakistan, Gilbert reformed the Pakistani economy by instituting a policy of shipping surplus U.S. grain to the developing country...
Continental Grain...
Agriculture has been among the sickest sectors of the economy. Plagued by low grain prices and continuing high interest rates, farmers are sinking deeper and deeper into debt. Last week the Farm Credit Administration asked Congress and the White House to begin making plans for a federal rescue of the 37 farmer-owned banks and 797 local lending associations that the FCA oversees. The institutions are stuck with loans worth more than $11 billion that have been classed as nonperforming because borrowers are behind on their payments. Donald Wilkinson, governor of the FCA, said that the federal aid needed could...
Just how Gorbachev made his way from there to become leader of the Soviet Union in a mere seven years is known only inside the Kremlin. Certainly his record as boss of Soviet farming was not glittering: grain harvests peaked just about the time he took over and have fallen sharply since, forcing the / U.S.S.R. to import more and more food. The job, indeed, has traditionally been a road to oblivion. Among the septuagenarians in the Politburo, which he joined as a candidate member in 1979 and full voting member a year later, he stood out primarily for his youth...
Dour, deliberate and repressed residents, both Lutheran and Roman Catholic, suffer dangerous guilt complexes. Just as the middle Olson boy reaches out to examine the medallion between the breasts of a sultry waitress from Mom and Dad's Cafe, Lake Wobegon's four-story grain elevator explodes, showering the town with chunks of timber...