Word: projects
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...market. Why can't this otherwise good food be distributed to the needy? That's what Ken Horne, 42, and Ray Buchanan, 40, asked themselves in 1983. The two Methodist ministers began to collect unsold potatoes from local farmers and distribute them to food centers. Since then, the Potato Project has sprouted in 47 states and has shipped a total of 56 million lbs. of spuds (the equivalent of 165 million servings) to 250 anti- hunger agencies...
Working with a staff of four at the project's headquarters in Big Island, Va., Horne and Buchanan have created a highly efficient distribution network. Farmers are instructed to send their rejects to the nearest food agency, and the project covers their expenses. "At 1 cents per serving in total cost, you can salvage a lot of food for very little money," says Buchanan. However, even with an annual budget of $632,000 (provided by religious organizations and individual contributors), the project still could not afford to ship 10 million lbs. of available potatoes last year...
...called Diversion. In 1983 Producers Lansing and Stanley R. Jaffe hired Dearden to write a feature-length script based on his idea. (Later, Screenwriter-Director Nicholas Meyer rewrote some of the scenes involving Dan's family, which Paramount executives had thought insufficiently sympathetic.) Michael Douglas was in on the project early, but Close arrived only after Debra Winger had rejected the role and Barbara Hershey was unavailable. The film began shooting in September 1986 under Lyne's direction. Flashdance had proved that Lyne knew which buttons to push for a multimedia smash, and 9 1/2 Weeks, a flop...
...like to get moving on this thing immediately," Ball said The success of this project would help Lawrence attract other construction programs to the economically depressed area, he said...
...that had been an animation class at Harvard," said Pulier, "this would have been a semester's project...