Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shiny floor in a white dress. Baby Watson, it seems, was born last year in Vermont. He is now ten months old and will always be ten months old. The sales girl pointed to a wooden sign lying on a countertop, the name "Baby Watson" carved into its grain...
...deal with the enormity of the present crisis, Kissinger outlined a comprehensive five-point program for global food planning. He urged the delegates to form a coordinating group and work out details for an international grain reserve that would assure an emergency food supply of 60 million tons. Participating countries would pool information on harvest prospects and stocks, agree on the size of global reserves necessary to protect against famine and share responsibility for storing and distributing the stockpiled grain. In its emphasis on distribution by need rather than commercial demand, Kissinger's proposal was an almost revolutionary departure...
...whom contributed three or four animals, the slaughter was dutifully recorded by television cameras and flashed into millions of American homes on network newscasts that evening. The point of the staged massacre was to draw White House attention to the cattlemen's plight. Caught between soaring feed-grain prices and depressed wholesale prices for their beef, farmers claim that they are losing money and in some cases facing bankruptcy. (Consumers have hardly noticed much drop in meat prices, but farmers suspect middlemen of raising their profit margins unjustifiably.) The farmers want relief in the form of emergency loans...
...recent concern about the world food supply: bad harvests in several major crop-producing nations of the world; the aggresive buying policies of the Soviet Union; and the poor 1974 crop here in the United States. The three events have resulted in a drop in the world grain supply of 50 million tons, he said...
Others have been a little more optimistic, but not much more helpful. Secretary of State Kissinger's proposals exemplify the air of unreality breathed in such conferences of concerned crisis-managers. He wants to improve the structure of grain and capital lending flows that have in the past, and will increasingly in the future, mire the Third World in indebtedness to Western institutions and governments; to improve health conditions through more elite-organized research on the quality of food nutrition, when such research in the past has itself demonstrated that the benefits of food-supplement efforts are illusory...