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...President was right in lifting the gram embargo. It was insignificant as long as other wheat-producing countries did not rally behind the U.S. The embargo only increased the grain sales of other nations and drove down the price of U.S. wheat. Lifting the embargo showed that Reagan lives up to his word...
...hooked on the idea that I things go better with coke," cracks a U.S. drug-control officer. He theorizes that only the astronomical price (currently $30 for .03 gram) is keeping even greater cocaine use in check. Worries another: "As demand grows, smuggling will increase, prices will drop and usage will probably increase. Stories about cocaine's popularity in the States don't help either...
...these plans, however, must await the outcome of the tax and budget pro gram, which for the moment is quite revolutionary enough. Reagan is proposing the deepest cuts in expenditures ever sought by a President. He is asking the nation to take a bold gamble that major tax cuts will spur savings, investment and noninflationary growth, rather than merely cause deficits to rise and create still more inflation (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). In selling this economic adventure to the nation, he will need all his proven skill as an orator. His ability may never be more tested than it will...
...Seeley G. Mudd Library. But inflation was exceeding expectations, and Yale needed to find another $1.5 million as the projected construction cost grew to $6.7 million. Meanwhile, resting virtually unseen in a library vault was the Yale coin collection's most famous gold piece, a 26-gram doubloon struck in 1787 by New York Goldsmith Ephraim Brasher...
...feces of infected canines. The virus can remain infectious for months, and can be tracked long distances on the soles of shoes or by other means. The disease does not affect humans, but sniffing dogs can pick up the virus by ingesting less than one-thousandth of a gram of fecal material. Five to ten days after exposure, the dogs may become listless, then vomit and develop bloody diarrhea; they also lose their appetite. If the animal becomes dehydrated, it may die unless treated...