Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special counsel, Leon Jaworski of Watergate fame, Park is expected to disclose the names of 31 Congressmen, who he claims took $750,000 in payoffs in return for their support of continued U.S. economic and military aid to South Korea and of his own position as an international rice broker...
...Asia's premier wildlife sanctuaries. When the Korean War ended in 1953, the DMZ, once an area of wooded mountains and fertile farm land, was a wasteland pock-marked with bomb craters and shell holes. But in 25 years those scars have begun to heal. Abandoned rice terraces have turned into marshes, which are a favorite feeding ground for waterfowl. Old tank traps overgrown with weeds serve as cover for rabbits. Untamed thickets provide a refuge for herds of Asian river deer, each a small (3 ft. high) fanged version of its North American cousin...
...thin, bearded priest wearing the black beret and the worn, ill-fitting country cleric's suit that are his trademarks. The priest laughs and shakes hands with everyone. After he celebrates Mass, with a loaf of bread fetched hurriedly from the kitchen, there is a steak-and-rice lunch for 200. Wealthy bankers are squeezed in at the tables next to ex-convicts and recovered alcoholics...
Which brings me to my first point--the pathetic close to the 1977 season has left me with this gnawing feeling in my gut, despite a carefully-planned winter diet of Quincy House rice pilaf and spinach ravioli. You see, the N.L. got wasted...
...that cost 95? last September now sells for $1.19, and will probably go higher. The myriad products that use the nation's favorite sweetener will inch up with it. Increased costs for transportation, labor and energy have driven cereal products up 6% in recent months. The price of rice has been puffed up by poor crops around the world; a 10-lb. bag that sold for $2.03 wholesale in October now costs more than $3. Torrential rains and floods in California's Salinas Valley, the nation's salad belt, ruined many of the crops already...