Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harvest begins, the twin plagues of drought and overabundance have dealt yet another blow to America's stricken farmers. In the following pages, TIME's Hugh Sidey looks at the ravaged Southeast and the surfeit in his native Midwest; a moving letter from a North Carolina farmwife reveals the personal anguish of a lifetime of work that ends in bankruptcy; and a worldwide assessment of the farm dilemma shows why it is proving so intractable...
...American harvest is the gargantuan creation of strong men and women, hard work, ingenuity. But this year's harvest is bittersweet. In the drought- stricken Southeast, there is not enough: fields are burned, stunted. Almost everywhere else, too much: glut, a beautiful curse costing $25.5 billion for price supports and subsidies. Wherever one looks, American agriculture, the very rock on which the nation stands, is in some kind of trouble...
Since 1980, farmers have struggled against shrinking markets, debts, tumbling land values and overproduction. Farmers in the Southeast have been robbed of their thin cash flow by capricious weather. Elsewhere, America's gigantic agricultural machine heaps up more grain and fiber than the world can digest. U.S. taxpayers foot the bill...
...hair and changed her clothes. Some are funny, like the student survey that "discovers" that green M&M's are an aphrodisiac, and some maliciously lead to racial stereotyping. Brunvand, a professor of English at the University of Utah, sees little humor or truth in the 1980 rumor that Southeast Asian immigrants in California were capturing and eating pets. Yet many people want to believe such tales. "I could run ads with the Super Bowl broadcast saying that the latest hot legends are pure folklore," says Brunvand, "and still some people . . . would pass on the story itself rather than...
...part of country where hill tribes live. The famous Golden Triangle, where much of the world's opium is produced, is the intersection of Thailand, Laos, and Burma, and the area is primarily controlled by various guerrilla groups and drug smugglers. The most common smuggling route, now that many Southeast Asian countries are cracking down, is through Burma to Bangladesh...