Word: grained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...takes decades to replace. The sodbusters are either big operators who buy land and plow on a major scale, or small ranchers who break their own land for a quick cash fix. "I want to make a buck," concedes John Greytak, 53, a former Datsun dealer and present grain operator who since 1974 has broken 250,000 acres of grazing land, mostly in Montana, and stores some 30% of his wheat production in giant bins (for which the Government pays him 26.5? per bu. each year). Robert W. Thomas has put more than 20,000 acres of northern Colorado rangeland...
Andropov's prospects may be further strengthened thanks to last week's prediction by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that the Soviet grain harvest over the coming year will increase by 14%. The last four Soviet harvests have been unnaturally scanty, so much so that the Soviet government refused to announce production figures for the past two seasons. But this year the U.S.D.A. forecasts a total Soviet grain production of around 200 million metric tons. That figure falls far short of 1978's record 237.4 million tons and of this year's optimistic target...
...preposterous misreading of the psychological situation in Russia to believe that by denying [the Soviets] grain or by denying them some pipes you can bring the Soviet Union to her knees or even make the Politburo compromise. The Politburo, like any tsar in the past, will be in a position to rely not only on the ability but the willingness of their nation to suffer. If challenged by an arms race or if told by their Politburo that they now have to sacrifice a little in their private standard of living in order to make it possible for the Soviet...
...reports from Peking, Chinese militiamen killed at least 37 Vietnamese soldiers in four or more incidents in Yunnan province. In the meantime, said the New China News Agency, Vietnamese gunners opened up on a district in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, damaging the primary school, the bank, the food-grain management office and a hospital...
...course of creative and conciliatory diplomacy. To show his good faith he announced the end of this nation's nuclear tests in the atmosphere. From the words and thoughts of that speech flowed the test ban treaty, a prohibition on nuclear weapons in outer space, the first grain sale to the Soviets, and the first nuclear arms limitation agreement. The latter, ironically, occurred during the term of his old rival Richard Nixon...