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...during the 1970s, suddenly flattened in 1982 at about 360 million gal., and have grown only marginally since then. Growers who planted their vines in anticipation of blossoming demand are finding a market that has shriveled like a raisin. Thompson seedless grapes, a basic variety that fetched $200 per ton in 1981, now sell for as low as $50. For many farmers, such prices are far below the cost of growing the grapes...
Before last night, President Reagan never had to concede that, yes, not everyone is prospering in a year where Americans won a ton of gold medals at the Olympics, And that, no, abortion was not quite as simple an issue as he wished it would...
Japanese surveillance aircraft first spotted the 3,000-ton sub on Thursday...
...Nazi attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World War II. The Edinburgh was located with sonar devices in 1981. Then, in what the London Sunday Times called "the greatest salvage operation in the annals of the sea," British salvors brought up most of her five-ton cargo of gold from icy waters 800 ft. deep. Hot water was constantly circulated through their diving suits to ease the extreme cold...
...gigantic yo-yo consists of a platform weighing more than a ton and hanging under the side of the balloon, an eight-mile cable and a 130-pound "monkey...