Word: metrication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hopes of reducing the huge U.S. grain stocks, which may reach 211 million metric tons this year, withered last week when the Soviet Union violated a long-term agreement and failed to buy the 3.85 million tons of U.S. wheat remaining in this year's quota. In an effort to clinch the deal by last Tuesday's deadline, the Reagan Administration had agreed in August to subsidize the wheat, but it was not enough to keep the Soviets from going to competing suppliers. Two days after letting the U.S. deal lapse, Moscow signed a five-year pact...
...Geldof's celebrity-stacked, bicontinental hunger concert, combined with the money raised by USA for Africa (which produced We Are the World and is the parent organization of Hands), total more than $140 million. Working with various relief groups, the Geldof organization has already shipped more than 100,000 metric tons of supplies to Africa. Proceeds from Hands, which optimistic organizers estimate could reach | about $50 million, will be distributed in a similar manner on the domestic front, with funds going to grass-roots food, housing and jobs organizations...
...pride of Campania, a lush farming region that stretches from Naples to the slopes of Vesuvius. At the height of the harvest two weeks ago, deliveries of tomatoes to canneries were abruptly suspended by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Reason: suspicions that much of a 200,000-metric-ton crop, perhaps 30% of a bumper harvest, contained the poisonous insecticide aldicarb. Marketed by Union Carbide under the trade name Temik, this is the chemical that contaminated California watermelons in July...
After the investigation, canneries began belatedly processing tomatoes last week. At least 30,000 metric tons of tomatoes, though, had to be destroyed because they spoiled during the inquiry. The growers would have undoubtedly liked to throw a few of those rotten tomatoes at government officials...
...against cocaine. Our commitment is very clear. Colombia confiscated nearly 16 metric tons of cocaine last year, compared with 14.97 tons seized by U.S. authorities. We dismantled the biggest cocaine laboratories in international history. We have confiscated hundreds of airplanes, ships, boats and automobiles belonging to drug dealers. Despite all kinds of threats, including personal ones, we will continue to intensify our action. We are at the point of no return. We would like to see more drastic penalties against those who produce, process, distribute or consume drugs, especially in the U.S. The U.S. is the principal world market...