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There was a long queue last week at the bread shop on Leningrad's Nevsky Prospekt. "They are selling special holiday loaves," explained a woman in line, as she stamped her feet against the cold. Yes, she knew about the U.S. grain embargo, imposed a year ago this week. "But it hasn't affected us," she insisted...
...Being a friendly neighbor is going against the grain for most Harvard students," she said, adding, "I hope they will pick...
...Democrats. One of his proudest accomplishments was improving the efficiency of the Illinois State Fair which indicates the vast jump that he must make from the 806-employee state agency he headed to the U.S.D.A., with its 141,000 employees and far-flung operations involving issues such as international grain sales and the role of farm products in diplomacy. On these last matters, Block will take office with firm beliefs. He argues that food is America's greatest diplomatic weapon and will continue to be so "as other countries become more dependent on American farm exports and become reluctant...
M.I.T. Economist Lester C. Thurow believes that this high inflation forecast may be too low. Said Thurow: "The risks are all on the down side. The economy could all too easily get some big new oil shock, for example. Or grain harvests might be disappointing and force up food prices. On the other hand, it is very hard to think about what piece of good news, might come along to make everything look better...
...stomach, rid him of an ulcer and improved his stamina. "I wasn't too unhappy then," he quips, "because you don't use your brain much." The experience brought him closer to Chinese rural life. "Agricultural is hard, back-breaking work," he recalls. "When you pull a handcart of grain mired in mud, it takes a lot of willpower. It gave me a sense of what peasants do." The experience seems to have given Zhao what James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, calls "the languid strength of a bamboo or willow--flexible though tough at the core...