Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this time, he thinks, for good, not only because of exponential population growth, but because "rising affluence is emerging as a major claimant of world resources." We have a food shortage today not only because population growth has eaten away the gains from the Green Revolution Third World hybrid seed program, but because rich countries are upgrading their diets. Each year at least eight million tons of grain--enough to feed thirty five million people well--are diverted from human to animal mouths to provide more meat for the rich...
...buildup of dangerous methane gas. Barges and trucks bearing the finished product will soon be on their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain seed upon barren ground. For six years the grain will be plowed under to build soil that should eventually bear food crops...
...Marvin) has the gumption to stick his head out the window-generally the one on the side of his patrol car, in which he tours the county trying to keep the high crimes to a minimum. Breck Stancill (Richard Burton) knows a little better. A Southern aristocrat gone to seed, he usually stays inside his house on top of Stancill's Mountain, spending his days mostly by swilling Ballantine's Scotch and remembering a forebear who was strung up by the townspeople for being soft on slavery. Stancill lets blacks live on his mountain rent free...
...important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton brought as little as a nickel and as much as 40? a pound...
...NCAA selection committee awarded Harvard the number-three seed in the tourney, which means that they will play the number-two team, Brown. The University of Connecticut, which is the only team to defeat Brown this season, nabbed the number-one spot, and will play Bridgeport, the fourth seed...