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...test plantings of crops that have been genetically altered to give them traits such as pest resistance and tolerance to weed killers. More ambitious projects are envisioned, among them adding protein to staples like corn and changing the type of oil produced by soybeans. Pigs that grow faster and leaner and cows that manufacture medicine in their milk are other goals. Observes Arnold Foudin, a biotechnology specialist at the USDA: "Ideas that a short while ago might have been dismissed as harebrained Buck Rogers are now being taken quite seriously." It was only in 1983 that scientists inserted the first...
...goal in a phrase borrowed from the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes: "To win -- or to win." His long-distance vision is to boost Brazil from the Third to the First World, and he is convinced he can do it with a freer market, greater industrial efficiency and a leaner bureaucracy. Certainly, Brazil's potential is enormous. It has immense rivers and forests, rich agricultural lands, huge deposits of gold, gems, petroleum, iron ore and minerals. With a gross domestic product of $350 billion and annual exports of $34 billion, it is Latin America's most developed nation...
...prospect of leaner times ahead because of smaller Pentagon budgets was a significant factor in the cutbacks. Three of the company's four biggest military production programs -- the Air Force's F-15E Eagle fighter, the Marine Corps's AV-8B Harrier II strike fighter and the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter -- are scheduled to be phased out in the next three years. The C-17 military transport is behind schedule, and orders for the Navy's T-45 Goshawk trainer have been cut back. The company is also teamed with other aerospace companies in several programs that face...
Pucci owes his new fame to a revolution that began in the gym and on the jogging track. Gradually, the line between work-out gear and street clothes has blurred, and, as people gazed into the studio mirrors, they began to see that an unbroken silhouette looks longer and leaner than one cut up by a skirt...
...products are rationed and the term quality control is not in the lexicon. The Moscow managers have imported potato and cucumber seeds from the Netherlands and have trained Soviet farmers to harvest and pack the produce without bruising it. They have taught Soviet cattle farmers that they can raise leaner beef by castrating their cattle a month later than usual and slaughtering them a month earlier. To maintain food standards and keep the supply flowing, the company has built a $40 million food-distribution plant just outside Moscow, with its own bakery, dairy and meat-processing units as well...