Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after day through the summer, Earl Simpson, of Monroe, N.C., got up with the sun and peered through the mist around his farm, vainly praying for rain. Ninety percent of his corn was lost. The wheat will come in about 30% of usual; soybeans will make a miserable 15%. "We can't go much longer unless something changes," Simpson says. Then he pauses and his face grows tender and sad. "They say the best product off a farm is the children." Earl's two sons, who farm with him, look down. Simpson will join the combine cavalcade, crops...
...produce corn and soybeans like this," says Smith. "The Government can't be the final buyer of all the produce." Farmers know this too, but they are so swept up in the choreography of the harvest that they cannot dwell on the clouds of melancholy that dim the summer sunlight...
Columbia, a Coca-Cola subsidiary, needs that kind of help. The studio's last - major hit was Ghostbusters, released two summers ago. It cost an estimated $35 million to make and has since earned more than $200 million. Columbia's major summer release, The Karate Kid Part II, has done well since it opened two months ago, pulling in gross revenues of about $94 million. But the film can not compensate for a two-year string of flops that included Perfect and The Bride...
...fair, Columbia is not alone in its problems. U.S. box-office attendance for the first six months of 1986 hit a seven-year low of 488.6 million, compared with a mid-1983 high of 599 million. Even with a strong summer, year-end box-office sales are expected to fall below 1985's $3.75 billion, which was nearly 7% lower than...
Although it seems horrible enough, I guess there is a positive aspect to the torture which I go through each summer. After about a week of bolt-grinding, I begin to miss the shuttle bus. After a month of ditch digging, I could sit through an English 10 lecture without screaming, and finally, by the beginning of September I love Harvard, and can't wait to be back. Even the Lampoon reads well after a summer with Baby...