Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really pull off a nationwide strike? Similar efforts in the past have foundered on the farmers' craggy individualism. Already, 80% of the winter wheat has been planted-a sign that farmers are not exactly slowing down. Says Farmer Harold Klein, who is active in the North Dakota wheat pool, an organization set up to eliminate the middleman in handling exports: "The farmers talk about strikes but go ahead and plant anyway, hoping that their neighbors will do the striking...
...Viet Nam in the early '60s. Rhodesian products, notably the excellent $1.50 steaks, remain cheap by world standards. Houses and rich farm property are available at fire-sale prices. One foreign resident in Salisbury just paid $42,000 for a six-bedroom house on two acres, complete with pool, tennis court and sauna...
...heehaw, one senses a touch of Martha Mitchellism; it is sometimes hard to imagine his adventures ending well. One problem is that Billy's cracker vaudeville is based upon a certain amount of sneering contempt. Under the good ole boy façade lies an unpleasant pool of anger. W.C. Fields was a professional at that kind of thing; it was his trade. The President's brother may discover that the Billy phenomenon can backfire. In any case, there is an unsettling symmetry about these two Carters: a President who forever asks the "decent, honorable, pristine" American people...
...school must have a fixed number of places it is required to fill each year, or else a bottom and a ceiling. The U.C. Davis program fails to fit the definition: each year of the special 16-place program the medical school also admitted additional blacks in its general pool, and in one year the special admissions staff felt that only 15 qualified students had applied, and thus filled only 15 places...
...Marines or Navy, which are smaller and have rarely resorted to the draft. Although the 17-to 21-year-old population will decrease from 1980 through the early '90s, there will actually be a greater proportion of high school graduates-the prime recruiting target. Still, says Cooper, "the pool of eligible young people the Army draws from will be smaller, and that means it must be able to reduce its turnover and lower the need for more recruits." He proposes screening applicants more carefully, offering incentive bonuses and allowing free trips home between assignments...