Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minnesota: Angry at Uncle Sam...
...which opponents reply in effect that what the country really cannot afford is Block's farm program. In this view, Uncle Sam has made himself a virtual financial partner of American farmers--a bossy and often capricious partner, to be sure, but by now an indispensable one who must not be allowed to abandon farmers to their fate. Indeed, while the Administration tries to get the Government out of agriculture, some farmers and their allies are taking the diametrically opposite approach. One bill proposed by Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa would increase farm price supports, by about...
...those prevailing in the rest of the world. The supports are a complex mixture of loans and cash payments from the Government to farmers, who sometimes have to restrict planting to qualify for them. They guarantee the farmer a minimum income per bushel, which he can collect from Uncle Sam if private buyers will not pay that much; they keep market prices near the support level. In the case of wheat, which gets more subsidy ($3.8 billion this year) than any other American crop, the basic U.S. support level is $3.30 per bu. and the market price in January averaged...
...returned four days before elections for the 276-member South Korean National Assembly--timing that seemed calculated to bolster the opposition New Korean Democratic Party, formed last December with the help of Kim's fellow dissident Kim Young Sam. Both Kims and twelve other opposition figures are forbidden to vote or run for office. To what degree Kim's presence might influence voters remains unclear. Most are too young to remember his nearly successful 1971 bid for the presidency; moreover, the electoral rules favor President Chun's Democratic Justice Party...
...Cows' Sam Fortenbaugh provided the toughest competition for the Crimson, pushing co-captain Richard Jackson to the limit before Jackson to the limit before Jackson took the match...