Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion; in each of more than 30 states, law-defying entrepreneurs produced crops worth at least $100 million at retail. California's harvest, worth an almost unbelievable but reasonably documented $1.5 billion at retail, led the list. Hawaii was second; its $750 million crop rivaled the sugar-cane and pineapple harvest in value. In Oklahoma, the $350 million harvest ranked just behind wheat. In Kentucky and Tennessee, each with a $200 million yield, dope growing has replaced moonshine as the favorite illicit enterprise. Harvesting of this year's crop begins in August and September, and experts predict...
...living 108% over the past year. All-night queues in front of butcher shops have largely disap peared, because many people cannot afford to buy meat at the new prices. Virtu ally all necessities are rationed: one bar of soap, a half-liter of vodka and 3 lbs. of sugar per person per month. This fall, pre schoolers will be allotted one pencil, one eraser and one paintbrush for the entire year...
...customary quota of celebrities was not met, although Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett had ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...that time, Sugar Ray Leonard, the microcosmic Ali, has turned boxing's welterweights into the heavyweights in term of status and publicity, and Holmes by himself is having a hard time changing things back. "Seems every time I go to the stage, I have to prove myself," Holmes said. "I don't have to prove it to you or to the world, just to myself and my family Forty times, I've gone up to the podium." Forty times...
...Reagan once said, "It's O.K., we all know Sam's irrepressible." He may be the toughest on-the-air questioner now that the defending champions, Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters, have eased up a little. Walters can still hurl a sugar-tipped dart, but has taken to asking Nancy Reagan what kind of tree she would be, if she were a tree...