Word: grains
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Management of the highest order will be needed to achieve the Four Modernizations. Of these, agriculture probably has the highest priority; it is also the most difficult. The Peking leadership has set a goal of producing 400 million tons of wheat, rice and other grains by 1985 and for achieving substantial agricultural mechanization by 1980. Both goals seem too ambitious. Though land in China is intensively cultivated and Chinese farmers are known for their innovation and diligence, yields lag far behind those of other countries. Peking has conferred with foreign farm experts, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, about...
BORN. To John William Carter, 31, lawyer, grain merchant and eldest son of President Carter, and Judy Langford Carter, 28: their second child, a daughter, and the President's first granddaughter, third grandchild; in Atlanta. Name: Sarah Rosemary Carter...
That food should be scarce in a city whose harbor waters literally jump with fish and where grain and corn bend in nearby fields is a contradiction. But it is not an uncommon one in young Third World countries where economic pragmatism has been pushed aside by ideology...
...half from the works of Sam Shepard. His theme is betrayal, not so much of the American dream as of the inner health of the nation. He focuses on that point at which the spacious skies turned ominous with clouds of dread, and the amber waves of grain withered in industrial blight and moral...
conjured up the image of two atoms driving off into the sunset, aluminum cans dragging behind their bumper, "Just Married" written in shaving cream on the back of their Studebaker. For just a second, taking anything with a grain of salt ever again seems like forcing a divorce on a happy couple...