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...drops its recent ban on U.S. beef from steers fed a growth hormone that is prohibited there. He also tried to persuade Australia and New Zealand to cut back beef exports to the U.S. That was not enough to please farm belt politicians, who pressed for reimposition of the outright controls on meat imports that the Administration dropped...
...middle-class families, food-price inflation means discomfort; for the American poor, it can mean outright hunger. Spending up to 60% of their income on food, the poor consume the most basic of diets and cannot "spend down" by substituting cheaper items when the cost of their regular diet goes up. Worse, the foodstuffs that they eat much of, such as rice, flour and dried beans, have risen even faster in price than meat and butter, which the middle class eats more of. The price of dried beans, for example, has leaped an astounding 256% since December 1970, while rice...
...That momentous piece of "strict construction" requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence, to a lawyer-and to free counsel if they are indigent; it also bars the use in court of any statement obtained without a reminder of those rights. But instead of reversing Miranda outright, the new majority has opted for trimming, undercutting or blunting its reach...
...years ago, his estate of 798 paintings was divided between his two children and a foundation for struggling older artists. His dealer was Marlborough. Marlborough immediately signed a contract with the estate's executors (one of whom was Marlborough Treasurer-Secretary Bernard Reis) to buy 100 choice Rothkos outright for $1.8 million, payable without interest over twelve years-an effective average price of $13,000 apiece at a time when, the plaintiffs allege, Rothkos were going on the open market for between...
Imani Kazana, director of the center, said last night that administrators have made clear in negotiations over the center's future that the University will provide no outright grants or loans to keep the center operating...