Word: grains
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With Gorbachev leading the assault, Yeltsin was savaged at that meeting and at a later session of the Moscow party committee. In his book Against the Grain, Yeltsin reports that Gorbachev phoned later to offer him the deputy chairmanship of the State Construction Committee, which he accepted. Gorbachev then told him he would permanently be barred from politics. Writes Yeltsin: "It did not occur to him that he had created and put in motion a set of democratic processes under which his word as General Secretary ceased to be the word of a dictator...
...deal, says one U.S. official, in part because "he played Bush's game, appealing to him personally in the one-on-one sessions and at dinner," rather than in group negotiations or at press conferences. Another reason: Gorbachev's aides dropped heavy hints that they would hold up a grain- purchase agreement that the Administration and American farmers very much wanted. After more than an hour's delay in the treaty-signing ceremony, Bush appeared with Gorbachev in the East Room of the White House to announce agreements on both grain and trade...
...dispel [the illusion]? Simply go out into the environment and see that it's not universal to have opportunity, to have the resources you do, the great school system or a supportive environment, For them to do what you do they have to go against the grain just to go to school...
...concerned that children who continue to load up on the "empty" calories in sweet foods may not get a proper nutritional balance. Bonnie Liebman, a nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, finds it ironic that "the same companies that are making cereals with whole grain, lots of dried fruit, high fiber and few preservatives for adults are still using sugar and refined flour and artificial flavoring for kids." Most everyone agrees the sweet stuff promotes tooth decay. "I tell kids they should throw away the cereal and eat the boxes," says Richard Holstein, a New Jersey...
Time was when the Midwestern grain belt had the manicured look of a suburban lawn. In summer, rows of corn lined up neat as picket fences. In winter the plowed earth mimicked swatches of felt brushed clear of debris. But as this year's planting season gets under way, an increasing number of growers are "farming ugly" -- gunning their tractors over fields ajumble with great clods of dirt and raggedy stalks left over from last year's harvest...