Word: graining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understandable: his predecessors might have been simply educators, but Bok has to be head of a huge, labor-intensive, recession-plagued, hard-to-operate corporation. To make his job easier, Bok and his lieutenants have made Harvard a little more cost-effective, something that runs against the grain of the place and has stirred up some grumbling about how Bok's nothing but a bureaucrat. In any event, Harvard is huge, with a $200 million annual operating budget spread over hundreds of divisions that must each break even. So one could say that Harvard is just another corporation, except that...
...farmers to whom Ford was appealing have been growing increasingly restive over mounting opposition to the sale of 10 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union. AFL-CIO President George Meany spearheaded that opposition last week by announcing that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load the grain on ships until the White House provided assurances that the deal would not increase food prices for American consumers. Seeming to take the farmers' side at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Ford declared that a "sound, fully productive agriculture is a key element in this nation...
...India and the Soviet Union. Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was so delighted by the change in Bangladesh that he hastened to recognize the new government and urged all Arab and Third World countries to do likewise. In addition, he offered Bangladesh 50,000 tons of grain and 15 million yards of fabric...
...food will rise no more for the rest of the year than it did in July alone. Their reasoning: most meat and poultry prices appear to have peaked, and some have already declined at the wholesale level. In addition, the July spurt resulted partly from bad weather that hurt grain and vegetable crops. During all of 1975, the department forecasts, food prices will rise 9%; that is more than its previous prediction of 6% to 8%, but would still indicate that most of the rise is over...
...Soviets in 1972 also bought 4 million tons of soybeans, which are not a grain; they are not buying soybeans this time around...