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...Reserves usually refer to grains - such as wheat, corn, sorghum, rice and soy beans - not needed to meet immediate demands. They can be in storage, in transit or in the lield ready to be harvested. Most food statistics use grain as the common measure because it is the major source of calories for man and provides the basic teed tor animals...
...reader, leafing through a lengthy study on the world food situation pre pared for next month's U.N. World Food Conference in Rome, might well be struck by a singular oddity: the many projections contained in the study all refer to the period between...
...course, but there does seem to be some evidence of an Orwellian irony in the making: be cause of the negative symbolic value of George Orwell's frightening vision of the future as contained in his novel 1984, a good many professional prophets would just as soon not refer directly to the year of the same name. No bureaucrat, how ever, is ready to confess such fears. A TIME correspondent went last week to that great clearinghouse of U.S. Government statistics, the Office of Management and Budget, and was told, "No body has anything against...
...prospect of importing vast numbers of guest workers from other nations, as Western European powers do. Iranians are not sure they like the idea. There are sizable groups of foreigners in Iran already; the U.S. community, many members of which work on military-assistance programs (and who refer to the Shah as "Ralph" in conversations that his secret police might find critical, and thus un constitutional), is already 15,000 strong...
...Cornett, the labor contractor system to which you refer was in declining use among the grape and lettuce workers until Chavez brought it back in the form of the hiring hall which is really the same thing, except in monopolized form. For example, Gallo company has never used labor contractors...