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Some dairy food processors, like Land O' Lakes Inc. of Minneapolis, have figured out another way to milk the program. There is a loyal consumer market for aged Cheddar cheese, which has a sharper taste than new Cheddar. Since storing the cheese would tie up the companies' capital, companies sell the cheese to the Government as a surplus dairy product, at anywhere from $1.36 to $1.39 per Ib., then buy it back at only a 10% markup six months or so later when the cheese is ready for market. The arrangement sticks the Government with the storage...
...surgery and 77 stitches he was out of danger. At week's end Ray was discharged from Oak Ridge hospital and transferred to Brushy Mountain Prison infirmary. The motive for the bloody assault is a mystery. "If they wanted to kill him, they would have used a sharper weapon," says Ron Bishop, director of institutional programs for the Tennessee Correction Department. But, inevitably, conspiracy theorists saw the attack as an attempt by King's real killers to silence Ray. Although the assailants are reportedly members of the prison's militant black Alkebu-Lan Association, prison officials doubt...
Mitterrand began gravitating toward the socialist left as his quarrel with De Gaulle grew sharper and he needed broader support for his fight against the general's "dictatorship." It was then that Mitterrand decided to become a spokesman of the opposition...
Indeed, the Crimson's passing was sharper than it has been all year. Thirteen of the team's 20 goals came directly off the pass, the highest count so far this season...
...when an assassin tried to terminate Reagan's progress, his luck seemed to hold again: if the gunman's arm had been jostled even a hair, if the angle of the slug's deflection off the President's seventh rib had been minutely sharper, if the Devastator bullet had not been a dud . . . Of course, one can argue it the other way: if the assassin's arm had been jostled, he might have missed Reagan entirely...