Word: grains
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...until recently that the school began looking for ways to rectify the problem--including the hiring of an expensive consultant to pinpoint some failings--perhaps because most students have not stopped agreeing that the rumors have more than just a grain of truth...
...opposition brought forward bythe HSDF is not only vindictive, but also goesagainst the historical grain of the Church Streetproperty--whose character has been shaped by itsmany incarnations over the past century...
SNAP, CRACKLE, PAY Following Kellogg and Quaker Oats, General Mills just raised cereal prices 2.5%, adding a nickel or dime to boxes of Wheaties and Cheerios. It's a risky move for the industry, what with low grain prices, inflation nonexistent and cereal selling for about $2.85 a box. In the past few years, consumers and investors have punished Kellogg for raising prices; it reported a 30% slide in earnings last week, and its CEO was eased out this year for the poor performance...
...think this is license to have two eggs, bacon, sausage and a fatty breakfast," said Rimm, who noted that the findings do not change current dietary recommendations for fruit, vegetable, grain and fat intake...
...What he didn't anticipate was Norman Borlaug. Working in Mexico from 1944 to 1960--long before the advent of modern biotechnology--the U.S. biologist developed a hybrid strain of wheat that was enormously more prolific than its natural cousins. Borlaug's "miracle wheat" allowed Mexico to triple its grain production in a matter of years, and when his hybrid was introduced in south Asia in the mid-1960s, wheat yields there jumped 60%. Miracle strains of rice and other grains followed in short order, triggering a global green revolution that put the lie to Malthus' gloomy calculation...