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Even such a fractional rise will irritate inflation-squeezed Americans. Nonetheless, higher exports of U.S. farm products are the best hope for reducing the nation's trade deficit, which is caused largely by oil imports. Since America's appetite for foreign oil will remain intense, it is necessary to sell more food abroad even if that means slightly higher supermarket bills at home...
While gold is psychologically important, the fate of the dollar is far more vital to the U.S.−and the rest of the non-Communist countries, which use the greenback to settle most international trade deals. Even before Carter's actions last week, the dollar had been slipping, as some financially important countries, including Saudi Arabia, sold American currency from their monetary reserves in exchange for West German marks and British pounds...
...house in a rendering of Solidarity Forever. Douglas Fraser has been singing this union anthem for almost half a century now, his own career paralleling the rise of the U.A.W. He is the last of a generation of labor leaders bred in the rich liberal traditions of American trade unionism...
...Celebration of One Thousand Years of British Gardening," includes architectural plans of medieval and Tudor landscapes, assorted tools of the trade (including the first mechanical lawnmower, a green-and-red contraption patented in 1830), and paintings that preserve the image of estates long since lost to the taxman and the decline of great fortunes. Many of Britain's fine gardens still flourish, however, thanks largely to the conservation efforts of the National Trust, a volunteer organization that administers 100 gardens and some 200 historic buildings. This year, using funds collected from its 816,000 members, from legacies and from...
...Little more than bare dirt when the Butlers bought the house shortly after World War II, the garden now blooms with some 300 varieties of flowers, shrubs and trees. Other amateur gardeners stop by to ask for cuttings and to trade notes on lush hybrid ivy. Such a bower well fulfills that dream of true Englishmen expressed in 1664 by Poet Abraham Cowley: "I never had any other desire so strong ... as that I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden...