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...business student-sponsored conference drew speakers including Gov. George Sinner of North Dakota, agricultural economists from various universities, and a Nebraska farming family, who suggested a variety of solutions to the current farm debt crisis...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Farm Foreclosures Will Increase | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...Sinner said that the state-owned banking system of North Dakota was successful in easing the farmers' plight within the state because, unlike commercial banks, it could manipulate the interest rate it granted in favor of farmers...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Farm Foreclosures Will Increase | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...Free-traders have meanwhile been developing a telling case for opposing import restrictions. It is true, they concede, that foreign nations often discriminate against U.S. exports. But the U.S. is a sinner too. From time to time it has negotiated quotas, sometimes disguised as "voluntary" agreements with foreign producers, on imports of steel, autos, sugar and even textiles. In a study for the Institute for International Economics, C. Fred Bergsten and William Cline contend that the U.S. restricts imports from Japan about as much as Japan limits purchases from the U.S. Another widely quoted estimate is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Barriers | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...Limits honky tonk, kicks off side two. After "Get Back to the Country," it's the album's strongest song. Next up, the title cut, is a classic Waylon-style "Gonna quit this drugs and drinkin" confessional. It's one of Young's funniest pieces since "Yonder Stands the Sinner...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Neil Young Goes Twang | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...brother (David Haig). Viv imagined herself, with a mixture of impishness and foreboding, as the mistress of Dr. Crippen, the Edwardian wife murderer. Nice judgment, that: Viv is the picturesque victim slipping into madness, and Tom is the deadly St. Eliot, ( condemned because he took advantage of a sinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jeeves Vs. Zelda Tom and Viv | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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