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...variety of barriers: outrageous quotas that keep Japanese consumers from buying as much U.S. beef and fruit as they would like, variable tariffs that hold the prices of American foodstuffs in the European Community above those of locally grown items, and the inability of the hungry underdeveloped nations to scrape up enough cash to buy more U.S. meat and grain...
...researcher quips: "I don't think we'll ever be satisfied until we've got a tomato that can be grown on the moon and whistles Yankee Doodle Dandy. "In general, the greatest problems concerning agricultural technology seem to be whether farmers can keep up with it and scrape...
...scrape deeper--you will start to be jolted. The tradition of higher education in England--from universities as diverse as Sussex and Durham--remains largely one of "academic excellence," not the idea that everyone should try to get "two or three years of college." There are only some 30-odd universities in the U.K. (polytechnics are still rightly or wrongly considered one grade down), and perhaps only 10 per cent of the college-age population get there. The education they receive is correspondingly more concentrated and structured than that of their U.S. counterparts. All secondary education--whether state...
...taking a boat out in the rough seas," but still feels a lack of equality. "The men think that women can't do the work," she complains. "But we do just as hard a job as the men do. We have to manhandle the supplies and scrape and paint just as a man does...
...best match of the contest took place with number one Julia Moore vanquishing Susan Foster in four games. Foster managed to scrape by in the second game 15-11, but otherwise Moore's march to victory seemed inevitable...