Word: harvested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field in search of medical aid. They had been poisoned by a chemical known as Torak, an insecticide so powerful that health codes forbid workers to re-enter a field within 30 days of its use. A subsequent investigation has shown that Madera workers had been brought in to harvest as early as nine days after the initial spraying. . . . The effects of pesticide poisoning are severe, but treatable. State health physicians candidly admit, however, that they have little information regarding long-term effects or the results of continued exposure. When exposed to the pesticide Torak, for example, it takes...
...California Labor Relations Act of 1975, the first piece of collective bargaining legislation for farmworkers in U.S. history. In the first few months, the UFW won 70 per cent of the 200 or so elections held (by law they can only be held at the peak of the particular harvest...
...allowed most factories in the frozen East and Midwest to resume at least partial operation. Perhaps a third of the 1.8 million employees who had been idled by cold-related shutdowns went back to their jobs. But some workers, such as the more than 3,000 watermen who harvest oysters in Maryland's still iced-over Chesapeake Bay, may have to wait longer to resume earning money, and industries in the Pacific Northwest, confronting a drought that is undermining hydroelectric generating capacity, face power cuts...
Under authoritarian rule, Gandhi has restored order to the Indian political scene and, more importantly for her own political future, taken great strides in improving the ailing Indian economy. With the fortuitous assistance of favorable weather patterns during the last growing season, India enjoyed the best grain harvest in its history last year. Farmers managed to amass a reserve supply of 17 million tons of grain--hefty insurance against future famines that will continue to afflict India whenever the monsoons fail again...
...although the majority will have to wait until the new prosperity trickles down to them before they can afford to buy much of it. For the first time since it won independence from Britain three decades ago, India last year made no new deals for imported foodstuffs. A record harvest of 118 million metric tons of food grains -mainly wheat and rice-has overflowed government granaries and is piled in the fields in polyethylene bags...