Word: planted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piece out of the back and hoping no one will notice. Critics charge that far too many exemptions have been granted. One example: the rule that farmers should get as much gasoline and diesel fuel as they demanded made sense in early spring, when they were rushing to plant crops. But the regulation was continued too long, and may be one reason why some rural areas now are awash in gasoline while cities...
Nicaragua's agriculture, which employs a majority of the population, has been all but ruined. June is normally the month in which farmers plant cotton, the country's leading farm export, and spray the coffee crop, which ranks No. 2. This year farmers are afraid to go to their fields...
Late last week, even as Douglas officials testified before congressional inquiry that the plane should be allowed back into U.S. skies, Bond flew to Los Angeles to confer with FAA safety experts searching for possible design flaws in the DC-10 at the Douglas plant. In his sessions with the FAA experts and safety board "crash detectives," Bond asked if the design and structure of the engine mounts in the 30 and 40 series were sufficiently different to justify clearing the bigger planes, of which there are 35 in the U.S. fleet. Not really, they replied. That left Bond with...
...Soviet leader objected to U.S. plans to build the MX missile, which will be movable to make it less vulnerable to attack. Said Brezhnev: "I don't understand why you're building this missile." He warned that if the missile cannot be verified by the Soviets "this will plant a mine under further negotiations." Carter replied that the missile would indeed be verifiable and therefore within the SALT II limits. The two leaders also exchanged views on the Soviet Backfire bomber, U.S. cruise missiles and the coming negotiations on SALT III. They agreed on the difficulties posed by medium-range...
...loaded with coal but shy on oil and boycotted by most of OPEC, leads the world in coal-to-oil technology. Converting coal since the 1950s, South Africa now produces 10% of its oil and gas from coal. The Pretoria government has commissioned Fluor Corp. to build two new plants for $6.7 billion that will produce more than 80,000 bbl. of oil per day by 1983. The process requires 1 ton of coal for 1 bbl. of oil. South Africa keeps cost figures secret, but outside estimates of close to $30 per bbl. make conversion only a longterm, expensive...