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...pineapple harvest in value. In Oklahoma, the $350 million harvest ranked just behind wheat. In Kentucky and Tennessee, each with a $200 million yield, dope growing has replaced moonshine as the favorite illicit enterprise. Harvesting of this year's crop begins in August and September, and experts predict a bumper yield. Says Bill Keester of the Oklahoma state police: "We've had a lot of rain, and we're blessed with good crops of everything. Unfortunately that means a lot of marijuana as well as wheat...
...food, bringing total U.S. aid to Zimbabwe to $42.7 million in 1982. Even with such aid, a severe drought is expected to reduce the nation's agricultural output this year by 20%, and depressed prices for such exports as chrome, nickel and copper have led bankers to predict a sharp slowing of Zimbabwe's economic growth, to 3% or less in the coming year from a robust 8% just last year...
...Samuel Huntington, two distinguished scholars who see an American government losing its ability to meet the demands placed upon it by various segments of society. Piven and Cloward, who see democracy principally as a means for working class advances, answer a tentative "yes" to this question when they predict a new mass movement for redistribution of power and wealth...
...public have regularly reviled for making "obscene" profits. Between 1978 and 1980, Exxon more than doubled its annual earnings, to $5.7 billion. This incredible surge, caused by an unprecedented jump in oil prices, could not continue for long. Profits dipped slightly in 1981, and oil industry analysts predict that the company's income will fall this year to as low as $4 billion. Though that sum still looks enormous, it will not be enough to meet Exxon's burgeoning cash needs. The company had hoped to boost its budget for exploration and other capital investment this year...
...poor states of the West and the Sunbelt. Milliken and other Great Lakes Governors fear that as the need for water grows in these areas during the coming decade, there will develop a prodigious national thirst for Great Lakes water. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus goes so far as to predict that Great Lakes states, along with Ontario, could become "the OPEC of water...