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...major project, a series of "trade covenants" in which large corporations agree to hire more blacks and use the services of minority-owned businesses. Jackson's critics, on the other hand, contend that results are meager because Jackson does not tend the orchard long enough to ensure a harvest...
...during the last years of Leonid Brezhnev's rule. The results have been mixed. Soviet national income has grown at the rate of 4% this year, compared with 2.9% in 1982. Andropov can also take heart from what is expected to be the best grain harvest since 1978. According to U.S. analysts, the yield may reach 200 to 210 million metric tons, well above the average of 177 million metric tons over the past four years. Still, the Soviet Union will not solve its economic troubles by cracking down on drunks and trusting in the weather...
...years, plentiful harvests have been the grocery shopper's best friend. Thanks to the rich yield of American farms, food prices have risen more slowly than inflation since 1979. But last week the Government disclosed that the combination of bad weather and a controversial farm-subsidy program may augur steeper increases ahead. Based on an Aug. 1 survey, the Department of Agriculture estimated that the 1983 corn crop will be only 5.24 billion bu. That output would be 38% below last year's record level and would represent the smallest harvest since...
...Since such figures are an average for all foods, the prices of beef, pork and poultry are apt to jump even more. In the months immediately ahead, however, those prices may show an interim drop, since farmers anticipating rising grain costs because of the poor harvest will tend to sell off their livestock...
...grain agreement comes when the Soviet Union is enjoying a rare good harvest. The Agriculture Department forecasts a healthy Soviet grain crop of 200 million tons this year, short of Moscow's hoped-for 239 million tons but still the best since 1978. That will reduce the Soviets' grain-import needs for the next twelve months to 30 million tons, from a peak of 46 million tons two years...