Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deliver messages. Other volunteers served as cooks and baby sitters, changing diapers and burping infants. One of the few offers the military refused was one from McDonald's to provide each of the arriving evacuees with a burger and a Coke as they set foot on American soil in order to introduce them as quickly as possible to what the hamburger chain's publicity men call "the American way"; to Air Force officials the idea seemed a bit like a publicity gimmick...
...plots to the public at $8 each per year. From coast to coast, gardening clinics are packing in S.R.O. audiences with Hoe-It-Yourself lectures ranging from Coping with Cutworm to Installing a French Intensive Bed (a system designed to reduce moisture loss and weed growth by mounding the soil...
...Gerald Ford on Indochina, but also to the first whispers of a tardy spring. It was clear that spring was more welcome. It will soon green the patch of Iowa prairie where they have lived and farmed for 64 years, bring the wild flowers to their slope of black soil with a quiet excitement that will dwarf Ford's perplexing insistence on more war in Southeast Asia...
...suburbs-an area roughly half the size of Rhode Island-are taken out of crops and put into buildings. Though the loss may seem insignificant in a nation with 470 million acres of cropland, there is a hitch. Much of the lost acreage is top-quality farm land, rich soil that the U.S. should keep as a major resource. But to save such land for farming has been almost impossible. Buying it outright is too expensive. Zoning it for agricultural use only can often be illegal. The U.S. Constitution forbids any action that lowers land values (in this case...
...agricultural workers some of whom earn less than $1 a day, produce coffee, bananas, cotton and beef for the import market. At the same time, peasants working tiny, inefficient plots of land (which often also belong to landlords) struggle to coax enough beans, rice and corn from the soil to feed their families, with perhaps something left over to sell in the local market. With the climbing birth rates, and the continuous introduction of labor-saving machinery in the large estates, peasants and small-town dwellers stream to the capital, attracted by rumors of work they can no longer find...