Word: grains
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...charges of unfair treatment by the Europeans are far less conclusive. By next January, the Common Market's industrial tariffs will average 8.3%-almost identical to the U.S.'s 8.4%. On the other hand, through a system of "variable taxes," the Common Market restricts imports of U.S. grain, beef, pork, poultry, lard and dairy products. Duties on them rise or fall to ensure that their prices are no lower than the inflated prices of comparable EEC goods. American imports are also blocked by a plethora of nontariff devices: border taxes, health regulations and artificial technical restrictions. For instance...
...spelling and other subjects in the same way that pigeons learn Ping Pong. Accordingly, machines now in use in scores of cities across the country present pupils with a succession of easy learning steps. At each one, a correct answer to a question brings instant reinforcement, not with the grain of corn that rewarded the pigeon, but with a printed statement?supposedly just as satisfying?that the answer is right...
...Beans. U.S. farmers, who rely increasingly on foreign customers to absorb their rich harvests, have been particularly hard hit. Grain elevators in California and the Northwest have been stuffed to overflowing with wheat and other products awaiting shipment. In Washington, 15 million bushels of wheat have been dumped, creating mountains on the ground, and some California growers will soon be forced to plow their crops under. "It's already too late," says Lee Adler, an official of the California Grain and Feed Growers Association. "Our Japanese customers have turned to Australia and South America. Some of them...
There is a disturbing grain of truth in the argument. To be black in America is indeed in many ways a political and social condition. All too often it is a condemnation to poverty and political impotence. For too many black youths, a numbingly meaningless school system becomes a sluice into crime, narcotics, precinct lockups, courts, and then prisons, with all the disastrous expertise that they have to teach. The nation's judiciary, for which politicians presumably have the ultimate responsibility, too often seems a collaboration between Rube Goldberg and Franz Kafka...
...have been abandoned. Much of the vital jute export crop, due for harvest now, lies rotting in the fields; little of that already harvested is able to reach the mills. Only a small part of this year's tea crop is salvageable. More than 300,000 tons of imported grain sits in the clogged ports of Chittagong and Chalna. Food markets are still operating in Dacca and other cities, but rice prices have risen 20% in four months...