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...school-lunch program, in an attempt to prop up beef prices. Butz's decision came as a complete surprise to the COLC'S food policy committee, which is chaired by Shultz, and provoked an angry reaction from Dunlop, who has greeted recent declines in prices of grain and livestock with undisguised pleasure...
...sold more than doubled. Soybeans, for example, rose to $8.60 per bu., from $3.65. Johnson held back more than half his harvest for sale this year, when prices could go still higher. Meanwhile, he plans to buy a new $19,000 tractor and make expensive improvements on his grain elevator. "Now," Johnson chuckles, "is a real good tune for a farmer to be paying off his debts...
...five suffering from malnutrition; at meals she would hold her plate to her face while she wolfed down her food. Other Vietnamese newcomers hoarded food in bureau drawers. The adopted son of Randy and Debbie Boroughs of Wayne, Pa., is very conscious of every bite. "Once he dropped a grain of rice on the floor," recalls his mother, "then quickly got down from the chair, picked it up and put it in his mouth." Yet, to this day, she adds, "he never eats all his food without offering some of it to others...
...wish I could be a grain of sand on the vernal road...
...like a tablecloth whipped off a table." But sooner or later, a pilgrim who refuses to believe in progress, she cuts back to the bone. To an age hooked on novelty, variety and pluralism, her message is as clear as William Blake's: "See a world in a grain of sand"-if you dare...