Word: grains
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Carter also tends to give subtle, complex, something-for-everyone answers, and occasionally to fudge and hedge his positions. He has taken three different stands on whether or not he would embargo grain sales to the Soviet Union (the last: no embargo unless a national food shortage or some other emergency required it). Ford's campaign manager, James Baker, has coined a word for this Carter characteristic: "Waffability...
...major speech in Iowa, Carter indirectly raised the Watergate specter -something he had said he would not do-by linking Ford with Richard Nixon. He criticized the Republicans for imposing embargoes on grain sales to the Soviet Union and vowed to end such embargoes "once and for all." Later, however, Carter did say that he would impose an embargo in a national emergency, such as a crop failure...
Forced Layoffs. The drought, which afflicts much of Europe, also threatens to undermine the government's year-old program to rebuild Britain's battered economy. Summer grain and food crops are suffering, and food prices are certain to rise. Worse, the drought could force large segments of British industry into layoffs or shortened work weeks. British Leyland, for instance, fears the loss of as many as 1,000 jobs at a parts plant outside the Welsh capital of Cardiff. With unemployment at a postwar record of 1.5 million (6.4%), any further increase could jeopardize the government...
...Grain Debt. The biggest borrowers are the Soviet Union ($15 billion) and Poland ($9 billion). The Russians have used the money not only to buy technology but to pay for the nearly 18 million metric tons of grain imported from the U.S. in the past two years. Poland, with the second largest population in Eastern Europe, has had the most ambitious industrialization program. Hungary too is an important debtor relative to its size. It has borrowed $3.5 billion in the West, or almost $320 for each of its 11 million people...
Today Perdue spends $1 million a year on advertising. In 1964 he employed 265 people, today nearly 3,200. Perdue Inc. supplies chicks and feed to 900 contract growers, who raise the broilers for a fee of about a dime each. "We mix our own grain," says Perdue. "We have our own poultry veterinarians and nutritionists. We leave no stone unturned in getting the best product...