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Sodbusters buy rangeland at prices that are relatively low because of today's depressed livestock industry, plow and plant the acreage in wheat, then sell the cultivated land, sometimes to buyers unfamiliar with the region and the fragility of the range's topsoil. Since the mid-1970s, planted prairie tracts have shot up in value because of speculation in cropland as an inflation hedge and federal farm programs such as PIK (payment in kind...
...side holding back could make the whole structure disintegrate. And while the Democrats can praise Reich's book and use some of his ideas for the 1984 platform, it is going to be hard for them to push labor into abandoning their hold on the smokestacks and going into unfamiliar and largely non-union high tech waters. The problems are there and Reich clearly elucidates them. But whether his calls are loud enough to get people moving is the real question...
...explosion of unfamiliar labels, though, can cause problems. Some experts fear that the new arrivals will create confusion and swamp an already crowded market...
...defectors. Sunny's Halo's groom and best friend, John ("Top Cat") Sears Jr., said, "It's been him, Dave and me. I rub him. Dave walks him." They both walked him into the winner's circle to a spontaneous chorus of O Canada-an unfamiliar sound at Churchill Downs. Not since 1964 (Northern Dancer) had a horse bred in Canada won the Kentucky Derby, and he is the first winner to prepare successfully at the Arkansas Derby in Hot Springs. Canada's best two-year-old in 1982, Sunny's Halo won that...
Yesterday's victory came down to the second doubles contest between Harvard's Warren Grossman and Rob Loud and Clemson's Andy Krantz and Miguel Nido. The other two doubles matches were played outdoors, and Harvard took both in two sets. But flakes of quickly melting precipitation were too unfamiliar to the men from the South, so the deciding match moved indoors from the cold to Palmer-Dixon Courts...