Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are people who tell us that the nations of this Western World cannot defend their own coasts, in the same breath that they assure us that American moral support, and surplus armament, and possibly a few men, if it should ultimately prove necessary, can turn the tide of a lost war, 3000 miles from home against the mightiest military machine the world has known. Both of these statements are fantastic nonsense. Our moral support will not wreck a single tank nor check the explosion of a single shell, and as for economic support...
...whose headquarters are in Sanford. Since 1965 Clark has been adapting helicopters under license for crop spraying, airline connections and Government use,.After long experimentation, he and Winnebago agreed that the S-58 Sikorsky was the best-suited chopper for Heli-Home conversion. Clark has already bought 56 surplus Sikorskys for H-H use, from as far away as Germany and Israel. Each of the craft will be rebuilt from the hull up under strict FAA supervision...
...sure how long the coffee boom will last. Some savvy coffee growers in southern Brazil are replanting in soybeans, wheat and sugar cane. They fear that the current coffee shortage will lead other farmers to overplant, thereby producing a future surplus and a resulting collapse in the coffee market. There is also a threat of further devastation from coffee leaf rust, a fungus disease that was swept by the trade winds from West Africa to Brazil. About 400 acres of coffee trees in Nicaragua's Carazo province have already been razed in an attempt to stop the rust...
Four secured facilities for juveniles now exist in Massachusetts: at Roslindale, Chelmsford, Worcester, and Westfield. When they fill, surplus juvenile delinquents must either be diverted into community-based programs or into an adult penitentiary, depending on the seriousness of their crime...
Since each school within the University manages its finances separately, one school's surplus is not used to ease another's deficit. The Business School, for example, incurred surpluses even during the worst inflation of the '70s while the College and GSAS, in their worst year, wound up with a $1.4 million deficit. The University refuses to transfer income from the profitable schools to these with shortfalls...