Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opponents of the Garrison say that in order to bring water to its 250,000 acres, the project would disrupt 220,000 acres now being farmed. Runoff water from the irrigated areas would leach salty chemicals from the soil and carry them into the Souris and Red rivers. Richard Madson, a local representative of the Audubon Society, calls the dispute over the Garrison "a classic test of whether the bureaucracy can be slowed down once it's moving...
...full-fledged peace settlement (including trade, tourism, etc.), were perturbed by the notion of agreeing to give up virtually all the territory even before negotiations begin. The Arabs were pleased by the implication of nearly total Israeli withdrawal, but were upset by the notion of foreign forces on their soil. Rabin, who faces stiff opposition in the May election, professed to be happy...
...shabby relic after six years of monumental misrule. The economy is a shambles. Nobody is starving, since there are plenty of bananas, the main staple for both food and (in distilled form) liquor. Corn, tapioca and yams also help ensure enough food for survival. But apart from the soil, not much of anything works today in Idi Amin's Uganda. Coffee and cotton were Uganda's chief export crops, but Asian and European marketing expertise has gone, and exports have declined drastically. At a time when coffee is at world-record high prices, 2 million bags...
...Midwest's dry period presents at least an equal threat of disaster. The danger is twofold: a lack of moisture to nourish either the winter wheat crop, already in the ground, or the crop scheduled to be planted in the spring, and the massive soil erosion almost certain to occur as the windy season now approaching wreaks havoc on dusty acreage unprotected by snow cover. Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed. As the cost of feed...
...decreasing surpluses in good years to maintain higher prices. He would also like to see far more conservation of water on a regular basis, rather than only during crises. University of Nebraska Agricultural Meteorologist Norman J. Rosenberg advocated breeding plants that require less water for growth and survival, greater soil conservation measures and more widespread planting of windbreaks to reduce soil erosion...