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...conservative fiscal policies, Argentina's foreign reserves have grown in the past year from $23 million to more than $2.3 billion. After a $1 billion deficit in 1975, the country's 1976 balance of payments returned to the black, buoyed by a record 11.2 million-ton wheat harvest. International banks are again offering loans, and an estimated $400 million from foreign accounts held by inflation-wary Argentines has returned to the country...
...quote Einstein, "Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals." Researchers deal with the practical applications of scientific theories and thereby create technology, but they themselves are not scientists. They harvest the fruit of science using funds from government, industry and private sources, and this is, indeed, subject to public concern...
...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...
With the millions of dollars in subsidies that agri-business has received, industry growers have never bothered to establish one clinic, serve, or educational program for any of the 250,000 farmworkers that harvest California's $1 billion worth of crops each year. But huge sums have been spent on lawyers and advertising to prevent union elections and to stall contract negotiations...