Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernieri 66 Sam Stepney RT 77 Steve Kaseta 58 Mitch McKeller RE 91 Bob Baggott 57 Tony Danckert LB 30 Joe Jason 51 Tom Furino LB 55 Tommy Joyce 30 Jerome Easton LCB 23 Bill Emper 14 Bruce Rich S 17 Paul Halas 5 Mike Slaughter ADJ 18 Lou Rice 24 Frank Nigro RCB 41 Andy Puopolo
...echoes Gold's dissatisfaction with the ability of open-ended labels to get to the crux of Chinese politics. The analogies the widely used factional terms conjure up, he says, "are quite inaccurate. In fact, political factions are not oriented around issues of moderate versus radical, but guns versus rice, central versus local control, equality of education versus political control over it--real live issues about which we know nothing in terms of alignment, or know only by implication...
...conflict over the issues Hofheinz focuses on--guns versus rice, central versus local control, equality of education versus political control over it--grew most extreme during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-59 and the Cultural Revolution of the '60s. These startlingly unstable campaigns delineate a unique element in Mao's leadership. Convinced that China would progress only if the principles of revolution remained vital, he encouraged the Chinese people's awareness of the perpetual struggle between two poles--the revolutionary line and the "capitalist road" or "revisionism." Mao's teachings acted as a fulcrum on which these lines would...
...experts expect the South's contribution toward meeting U.S. food demand to grow faster than the rest of the nation's. Cotton has declined in importance as a cash crop, but the slack has been taken up by other products: citrus fruit in Florida, sugar cane and rice in Louisiana. Southern soybean harvests are expected to account for 30% of the U.S. production in 1985, up from 27% in 1970. By 1985, Southern livestock farms will be producing nearly a third of all U.S beef cattle...
...agriculture plays an important role for the state's 12.2 million people, who are spread over 171 million acres. Besides leading in cattle production, Texas outpaces all other states in lambs, goats, grain sorghum, cotton, watermelons, cabbage and spinach. It also vies with Louisiana as the biggest U.S. rice grower...