Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington also could help all farmers?and the world?by pushing agricultural exports even harder. For example, U.S. negotiators at the world trade talks in Geneva might insist that the nation will do nothing to open the U.S. market wider to European and Japanese goods unless industrialized nations let in more American-grown food. The Government might also expand its aid?$10 million this year ?to farmers who organize cooperative groups that develop foreign markets. One tempting target: China, which has just begun to buy U.S. meat and grain and could use more. Carter has signed...
...colonial America after a stopover in England in the early 1700s), has been farming since Pat's great-grandfather moved to Minnesota from Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War. During the Depression the homestead shrank from 1,000 acres to 400 and father Edwin had to hunt partridges to help feed the family. But post-World War II prosperity enabled Edwin to buy another 300 acres when Pat began farming with...
...Scotch or two, though his regular drink is beer. But many evenings and weekends are devoted to TV or simply family conversation. The Benedicts are Roman Catholics and regular churchgoers; when St. Cecilia's Church in Sabin burned to the ground two years ago, Pat was elected to help supervise construction of a new building. He is close with his money but has unwound enough in the past few years to buy a Cadillac, several color TV sets and motorcycles for each of his three oldest sons. This year he even treated himself to a two-week trip hunting...
...Large high-technology companies, such as Beckman Instruments and TRW, both founded by Caltech alumni, value their close ties to the campus. So too did Los Angeles Businessman Norman Church. Wrongly accused of drugging a horse that won a local race, he appealed to Caltech's chemistry department for help. The professors exonerated Church, and the businessman gratefully gave the school $ 1 million for construction of a new biology...
Times readers, beneft of its acres of information and its sober ruminations, haven't got much help from the return to publication of Rupert Murdoch's go-it-alone New York Post, which is crammed with ads, some news, and a lot of sell-promotion. Murdoch is too commercially astute to try to fill the gap left by the Times (he couldn't anyway). Instead, while he has the spotlight he has been trying to start up a new Sunday paper and a salty new morning tabloid to compete against the New York Daily News...