Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts by the U.S., Britain and Zambia to do just that. Once the Russians' propaganda card has been removed, opinion in the O.A.U. might be mobilized to support the withdrawal of all foreign forces-including the Russians and the Cubans. And although President Ford ruled out withholding American grain shipments as a means of pressuring the Russians, he also served notice to Moscow last week that continued Soviet intervention in Angola would damage "broader relations" with...
...Chou and carried out by Teng. China's trade deficit of more than $1 billion in 1974 was significantly reduced last year by cutting back on foreign imports. Meanwhile agricultural policy, as managed by Teng, has produced happy results: there has been a highly creditable 7% annual increase in grain production since 1972. Steel output has also risen by an impressive 10% a year since 1971, while oil output last year was about 25% higher than in 1974. So long as Teng's economic policies prove successful, it will be difficult for radical factions in the party to mount...
...pressure the Soviet Union and isolate it as a tyranny." Will admits that he doesn't know how successful such a policy might be, but insists that the Soviet Union "ought to be offered unpleasant choices. We have not offered it unpleasant choices. If they want all that grain, if they want to raise the protein consumption of their people, they're going to have to treat their people differently. They may say, 'well, to hell with it, we don't want to raise the protein consumption of our people.' Well, that's just fine. We ought to make...
...America, not only in width of charter but also in breadth of collections-5,000 years of cultural history embedded in some 3 million objects. A few years ago, such figures seemed intimidating to many New Yorkers. The very idea of an encyclopedic museum went against the radical grain; and there was much talk of decentralization. Fortunately this did not happen. Just as you do not get rid of the need for the British Museum reading room by multiplying local libraries, so the necessity for the Metropolitan remains: a place where a very large deposit of cultural evidence...