Word: grains
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...most striking aspects of the debate is that the broader, historic issues have been so little discussed. In a recent letter to his constituents, Tory Maudling urged voters not to "rest the future of England upon this week's price of grain in Chicago, or butter in New Zealand. There are greater and more lasting issues at stake." Maudling's advice notwithstanding, it may well turn out that Wilson's deliberately low-keyed and uninspiring approach was the one best suited to produce a historic, positive result...
...increases have forced up the price of some exports and consequently reduced their competitiveness in foreign markets-a serious matter for a nation that depends on exports for 30% of its gross national product. And the walkouts have been crimping the economy directly. Last fall, for example, grain handlers on the west coast around Vancouver struck for seven weeks. They returned only after the Canadian Parliament imposed a settlement and after Japan and China had shifted some orders for grain-Canada's most important export-to the U.S. and elsewhere. The national postal system was weakened so badly...
From the observation deck atop the twenty-six story main tower of the hotel I could see people in pirogues coming home to their bamboo shacks across the bay after another day of fishing to survive; and my ship, too, unloading a thousand tons of foreign aid grain, reminding me that three hundred miles away there was a drought and people were starving. But life in the big city goes on as always. Abidjan's sidewalk cafes were full of people drinking and fending off the hordes of peddlars, who sell anything from boa constrictor skins to nose-rings...
...state senator from Michigan. Indeed, Rockefeller recently alienated West Coast conservatives by naming to his staff John Veneman, a liberal Californian who once served as Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Notes a Reagan aide: "The symbolism of the Veneman appointment goes against the grain of any Rockefeller rapprochement with the right...
...mercy toward consumers, but a blow to farmers. To shore up net farm income, which nearly doubled in 1973 but fell 17%, to $27 billion, last year, the measure would increase the support price of milk from 75% to 80% of so-called parity, raise "target" prices of wheat, grain and cotton (giving farmers cash subsidies if the price falls below the "target" level), and allow the Government to make larger loans to growers. It would also raise grocery bills. According to Agriculture Department economists, the addition to retail food prices this year would cost the consumer several hundred million...