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...bill would however, include other changes that could ease price pressures in the long run, especially for the poorest Americans. Here's how, according to the latest negotiations...
Felicity threw her tawdry romance novel to the floor with a furious exclamation. She had to stop reading such filth. It was in the poorest of taste, and besides, she had not been able to read past the first line all morning. Her hands shook. She had been worrying the hem of her dress with what remained of her fingernails.The cause of her distress was no mystery. Each morning, for five days, she had found an excuse to visit the stables. And each morning, upon her arrival, she found her husband Frederick already there, discussing details of the upcoming harvest...
...crisis has its roots in four interlinked trends. The first is the chronically low productivity of farmers in the poorest countries, caused by their inability to pay for seeds, fertilizers and irrigation. The second is the misguided policy in the U.S. and Europe of subsidizing the diversion of food crops to produce biofuels like corn-based ethanol. The third is climate change; take the recent droughts in Australia and Europe, which cut the global production of grain in 2005 and '06. The fourth is the growing global demand for food and feed grains brought on by swelling populations and incomes...
That message plays well in a country where, according to the United Nations, 21% of the people live in extreme poverty - and the figure is rising - making it South America's second-poorest nation behind Bolivia. (Per capital gross domestic product is little more than $4,000 a year.) It is also one of the hemisphere's most corrupt, which Colorado critics blame on so many years of one-party rule - 35 of those under the brutal and venal Stroessner until his 1989 overthrow. Paraguay's government has been civilian since 1993; but a recent survey found that more than...
...asset, Brown's reputation for sound economic stewardship, has become ever more tarnished as Britain's economy takes hits from the worldwide financial turbulence triggered by the U.S. credit crisis. It's hard to sell high-flown ideas of multilateralism or promote increases in aid to the world's poorest when your own people see the value of their homes and stocks sinking and the price of food and fuel rising...