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...sheds crocodile tears like a U.S. farmer. He is either crying about too much rain-or not enough. And he cries again when the harvest is so bountiful that it depresses the prices he gets. But when he examined his ledger over the winter, he usually had something to smile about: annual farm income often rose, and the value of land and machinery soared. No more. The tears flooding rural America this spring are genuine. Caught in a cashflow crunch, farmers are facing their bleakest year since the Depression...
...Night harvesting can help in other ways. Melons age faster at higher temperatures. By picking them before they reach 100°, agronomists find the fruit has a longer shelf life at the grocery store. Working at night also keeps workers cool. Says Bart Fisher, who this year will harvest almost 90% of his melon crop at night: "There is a dramatic improvement in morale when the workers pick at night." After-hours in the melon fields is apparently one night-shift assignment that pleases workers and bosses alike...
...harvest time for the Crimson not to mention party line squash. The team unveiled its customary array of shots. In a quality and quantity the Quakers found impossible to match. Harvard possessed simply too much of what they call "racket skills"--shot-making touch, timing for their less-experienced and probably less-talented opponents...
...effects of overcentralized planning and lagging industrial and agricultural production, of shouldering the Polish debt and of financing a war in Afghanistan. Lately, the U.S.S.R. has been selling gold to make up for a currency shortage caused by a serious shortfall in last year's grain harvest. As a result, Moscow has been cutting back on its aid to all of Southeast Asia. The Soviets were forced to reduce their 1981 grain shipments to Kampuchea by almost half, from a promised 100,000 tons to only 55,000. The price Viet Nam pays br Soviet petroleum rose from...
...presented in five parts. The first is the planting of seeds. The second is a dance of three scarecrows (the little ones in the audience howl at the masks). The third part is the cutting of the rice, and fourth is the tying. Finally comes the celebration of the harvest. The children prance under a full moon. Over the loudspeaker an announcer explains: it was a good year...