Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government was concerned about the increasing price of meat, and imposed ceilings. "Every time we begin to get a fair price for one of our products," says Yokum, "the Government steps in and puts a ceiling on it." To counteract the price controls, farmers kept their cattle off the market, thus building up another surplus that substantially cut beef prices. Now that farmers have finally sold off this surplus, complains Yokum, they are still faced with mounting cattle imports. Whatever they do, it seems to them that they cannot...
...Yokum sees it, he may as well go on strike as try to keep farming. Even if he does not plant his 1978 crops, he can apply for a price-support loan on his current grain. He would get $2.04 per bu. of corn as opposed to the market price of $1.80. He would get $2.12 per bu. of wheat instead of $2.01, the current local price. "This will give us some of the capital we'll need," he admits, but he feels it is only a temporary reprieve...
...mill and union bosses and presided over by the Administration's chief trade negotiator, Robert Strauss. That it was called constituted Administration recognition that the steel industry is in bad trouble: rising imports of cheaper steel from Japan and Europe in August captured almost 20% of the American market, causing layoffs of some 60,000 American workers, slicing steel company profits and forcing the closing of old mills in several cities. Steelmen have long complained that much of the foreign metal is being "dumped"-that is, sold in the U.S. below the cost of production. But little was done...
...this year reconvened the committee, which was originally established in 1973, to re-evaluate Harvard's long-term economic strategy in light of continued inflation and a faltering stock market...
...critiques on science fiction authors, which has arleady covered Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein; books on Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin are in preparation. For all its amateur wordiness, the book reflects the vitality of this literary genre today. While mainstream short stories can scarcely find a market, sci-fi anthologies have become so numerous that it's difficult to think of new names for them, as Clarke himself points out. Science fiction enthusiasts will enjoy comparing the critics' evaluation of Clarke's themes with their own, and newcomers to science fiction may have some questions about...