Word: hoarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planes, atomic reactors and computers. But perhaps the most important measure of the distance India has come is the fact that for the first time in history it has become self-sufficient in food production. Today the government has 9,000,000 metric tons of food stocks, the biggest hoard in its history, and more than enough to cope with the drought that has struck every five years for a century and is widely expected...
...particularly striking example of the omnipresent hoard called the press was the Muskie tour of the Manchester shoe factory. The smiling Maine Senator, dressed in his gray wool body-fitting suit, weaved his way through huge barricades of incomplete shoes to shake hands with the factory workers. The press, about 50 of them, invaded the building chasing Muskie down aisles, questioning workers about their opinions, and cutting off the campaign team to get local-color pictures of Muskie with the workers...
...hoard is far from considered a nuisance by campaign managers. Without the aggressive old-style hand-shaking frontal attack of a Sam Yorty, who can exude his own magnetism, McGovern needs the hovering press to create the excitement of a devoted following. Early in the campaign McGovern toured a shopping mall without a press entourage with the result that he had to wander through the aisles, a lone figure in search of a handshake. A week later, surrounded by the press. McGovern's appearance in a local Jordan Marsh managed to create the favorable impression of a much-loved candidate...
...Hoarding Food. Another objective of Minh's noisy operation is to counter a Communist campaign against Cambodia's capital. For a month, enemy rockets have repeatedly slammed into Phnom-Penh and nearby Pochentong airport. One theory is that the Communists are trying to force the Cambodians to pull back for the defense of the capital the troops that are harassing them in northern and eastern Cambodia. Phnom-Penh's residents are so worried that a Communist invasion is imminent that they have begun to hoard food. Obviously, Minh is not the only one who knows...
...Crucial Overhang. Last year global demand for silver amounted to 397 million oz., but production in the non-Communist world was only 247 million oz. What speculators grossly underestimated, however, was the size and importance of the "overhang"-the hoard of silver being held aboveground by corporations and private investors. There is an estimated 450 million oz. in bullion stored in the U.S. and Europe, plus 500 million oz. more in private U.S. coin collections. Moreover, millions of people in India are believed to own several billion oz. of silver jewelry and other heirlooms. Such huge hoards guarantee that...