Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...item in the U.S. food bill (about 25? out of every dollar), one beneficiary of the current situation is the U.S. housewife. Retail beef prices slipped 2% to an average 81? per Ib. last year, and the dip is expected to continue for a while. But Government experts also reckon that the cattlemen's troubles are only temporary. The beef business historically runs in cycles; when prices hold low, cattlemen sooner or later have to thin their herds, marginal operators drop out-and prices begin to recover. Besides, as the Agriculture Department made a point of noting last week...
...land mass smaller than Texas', an economy that is booming but still no match for West Germany's, and a nuclear device too cumbersome to get airborne, France has, by the judicious use of diplomacy in the classic sense, become a power that the world must reckon with...
...home, Kenyatta must reckon with a population that is soaring at an annual rate of 3.4%, and though the government intends within five years to settle 50,000 African families on a million acres in the "White Highlands" bought from European settlers with $80 million supplied by Britain, by that time an additional 100,000 families will be clamoring for land. Kenya's huge labor surplus must idly await the slow development of industry, and there is a great lack of trained professionals to replace the departing whites. For example, Kenya has 750 doctors but needs at least...
...invaders represented some of the 24 oil companies that are gunning for a share of the world's second largest natural gas deposit (after Texas). The Dutch government conservatively estimates that 1,100 billion cubic meters of gas bubbles under the Waddenzee Islands and the northern provinces. Others reckon that the fields contain five times that amount...
Though stamps have an almost universal appeal to housewives who think that they may be getting something for nothing, Progressive Grocer Magazine figures that the stamps amount to 14% of a retailer's operating costs, second only to his expenses for labor (44%)-and he obviously has to reckon those expenses in setting his prices. The magazine also questioned 12,000 U.S. housewives, concluded that most do not really prefer one store over another because of stamps or contests, but because of polite and helpful clerks...