Word: sown
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...House has allowed the competition to ripen. Indeed, Weinberger has been "committing foreign policy," as he puts it, more vigorously than any Secretary of Defense since Robert McNamara two decades ago. The dissonance between Weinberger's generally hawkish views and the usually more moderate approach of Haig has sown doubt about the U.S. approach toward countries ranging from El Salvador to Poland, and nowhere more so than in the ever volatile Middle East...
...seeds of the first revolution-high-yield, fertilizer-hungry super-grains-were sown all over the world in the 1960s. Bread-bare countries like Mexico and Iran were soon exporting wheat, the Philippines became self-sufficient in rice, even Pakistan had a harvest surplus. But soaring oil prices pushed the cost of essential petrochemical fertilizers out of reach of all but the wealthiest countries. Today nearly every country "revolutionized" by the Green Revolution is importing food from the world's half-dozen grain exporters, most notably...
...this point that the first seeds of Faculty discontent were sown, according to a number of professors. The politics of a university being what they are, many Faculty members knew something about the Ptashne arrangement before the administration let the official word out; and a good number of them even resented what looked like preferential treatment for Ptashne. ("There was a lot of lobbying in the sciences," Solbrig says. Others pointed out then that the University had not helped launch companies with other scientists such as molecular biologist Walter Gilbert, whose Biogen Inc, S.A. had been operating for about three...
...additional $8 billion of inflation-induced deficit for this fiscal year and the prospect that Ihe Social Security system may soon go broke, Reagan opted for action. His proposal to reduce Social Security payments produced shock waves-congressional phones and mailbags exploded with protests-but the President may have sown the seeds of future success. Indeed, the wise strategy may be to push even harder. "The iron is never going to be hotter," says one of Reagan's top aides. Their polls show him with a 76% approval rating...
Describing the quandary facing the leadership, Central Commitee Member Mieczyslaw Rakowski told TIME: "For the party, this was a huge shock. These changes should be carried out by the party. But you can't do this under shock." Despite the confusion sown by the strike experience, Rakowski felt that the promised reforms could be "a very positive step toward a socialist system that will be accepted by the people...