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...year will not harvest 32.1 million acres of wheat (35% of eligible land), 39.5 million acres of corn and sorghum (39%), 1.7 million acres of rice (43%), 6.8 million acres of cotton (44%) and 2.3 million acres of barley and oats (12%). As a result, surpluses will begin to shrink. This year's corn crop, predicts the USDA, will be only 5.6 billion bu., far below last year's record 8.4 billion and low enough to draw down stocks a year from now to 1.9 billion...
...West Virginia produce some of the finest steel and tin plate in the world, about $1 billion worth annually. Even so, the plant lost $50 million in 1982. A year ago, when National announced it would stop investing capital in the plant, Weirton employees feared that management would drastically shrink the operation or shut it down altogether...
...same time, Spinney does not shrink from his new role. He has the kind of mind that quickly sees patterns in columns of numbers, and he thinks fast on his feet. Above all, he has confidence in his conclusions...
...respected than loved, children's books somehow don't seem as serious as their supposedly more spohisticated adult counterparts. But Madeicine L 'Engles, where A Wrinkle In Time was universally considered to be for children when it was first published in 1960, has gradually seem this gap in perception shrink over the years. Now the author of some 20 additional adult and children's books, she still gets about 60 letters a week from appreciative readers and readers of the same story, which follows 12-years-old Meg and her brother on a quest through time space and mathematics...
...Lovesick Moore brought many touches from his own experience: he spent 17 years in the office of one shrink or another, trying to come to terms with a childhood that was more than unhappy. His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham. But poverty was not the problem: it was a clubfoot and a skinny, slightly shorter left leg, which sent him in and out of hospitals from the age of two weeks on. "Psychologically it was made harrowing...