Word: sorghum
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Government inspectors recently failed to pick up a major case of pesticide contamination in chickens in Arkansas. Heptachlor, a cancer-causing chemical, was banned for use in food more than a decade ago, but the EPA permits it to be sprayed on some grains. Earlier this year sorghum treated with the substance was sold as feed grain and given to the chickens. The problem was detected in routine lab tests performed by the Campbell Soup Co., which had purchased the poultry. As a result, 400,000 chickens have been destroyed in the past month...
...April, Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi's failure to deal with the country's accumulating crises brought down his second government in two years. As if all those woes were not enough, a plague of locusts is threatening to wipe out the country's meager crops of millet and sorghum...
There is another product in high demand but short supply on the Soviet side these days, thanks to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's antialcohol campaign. As a result, Chinese traders make room in their sample cases for bottles of mao-tai, a fiery 120-proof sorghum liquor -- not to sell but to lubricate negotiations with their Siberian hosts. Says Dimitri Krolov, a Soviet regional trade official who joined the train in Zabaikalsk: "Business is booming. We manufacture what they want, they grow what we want...
...origins of the European trade dispute go back a year, to the entry of Spain and Portugal into the European Community. With that move, Spain embraced highly protectionist E.C. farm policies that included prohibitive levies of up to 200% on U.S. corn and sorghum exports. The action effectively closed those Spanish markets, worth an estimated $400 million to American farmers. Under the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a 92-member treaty, Washington demanded compensatory access to overall E.C. markets for the same goods. The Europeans recognized the U.S. right to compensation, but then refused to take...
McPherson cited the development of a malaria vaccine and a new strain of sorghum as examples of the progress international development programs have made...