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...grain for their livestock. Says Sung Won Son, senior vice-president and chief economist for Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis: "Having the grain overhang the market will psychologically and actually depress market prices. The grain exporters and elevators are large enough to survive the crisis. The real hardship will be down on the farm." Experts figure that the embargo will cut farm income this year by 10%. The loss will ripple through the farm economy, affecting rural bankers, storeowners, feed companies and fertilizer manufacturers...
...Bette's family, as she remembers, there was always a lot of angry bellowing from her father, a house painter for the Navy. Even today Fred Midler has not come to see one of her shows, a source of obvious pain to his daughter. But Bette had a hardship even Rose didn't have: hers was the only Jewish family in a neighborhood of Samoans...
...companies have little comfort to offer beyond the assurance that supplies of heating oil are adequate. Says Gulfs Charles H. Bowman, vice president for energy regulation and compliance: "We are earning money in a shortage situation?hardship, if you will?that will be used to help alleviate the shortage. We don't feel that our profit increase on home heating oil, about three-quarters of a cent per gal. over three years, is exorbitant. If anything, it is not enough." True, Europeans are struggling with heating-fuel bills of as much as $1.50 per gal. in Denmark and Austria...
...students requested these "hardship" leaves, double the number of 1977 applicants, Upton said...
LSAC decided to limit the number of third-year "hardship" transfers because "We don't want to give the message that Law Schoob is a two-year experience with a third year elsewhere," Upton said, adding, "Law school is a three-year experience...