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Under the Government program, if a farmer could not unload his leaf at auction, he could still consign it to a "pool," a farmers' cooperative that borrows money from the Government. The pool would then try to sell the tobacco. If it succeeded, the loan was repaid, but if it failed, the Government ate the difference. The cost to taxpayers was small, at least compared with other farm subsidies: $600 million total between 1938 and 1982. Yet increasingly, foes of tobacco began asking why any tax funds should go to a product that the Government itself says is a health...
Still, some investors remain skeptical. Says Tyrone Po, 25, a Manhattan bank employee: "I'm not convinced it's time to buy yet. The market is too fickle. I don't trust it." Po is waiting for an upswing in pharmaceutical stocks so that he can unload at a profit the ones he already owns. Many brokers observe that small investors are savvier than they used to be. Glorian Donegan of Moraga, near Oakland, Calif., trades stock tips with her colleagues in a 2,000-member investment club. She regularly visits a nearby business library to read investment magazines...
...starving the Russian trucks. The the recipients who see "LADA" the Russia auto masque as to be grateful to Russia. This came out to recent Phil Donahue talk show. In the police of hunger as practiced by Ethiopia a Norwegian ship, loaded with relief supplies, was not allowed to unload because were to go to rebel-held as well as government held areas...
...partygoers, several of the hosts, including a bank and a law firm, donated their uneaten goodies to the poor. Outside a Washington shelter for the homeless, ragged street people gaped as a purple van from Ridgewell's ("caterers to the elite") pulled up and tuxedoed waiters hopped out to unload leftover canapes, whole hams, mounds of crab claws, shrimp and quiche. That night at the shelter, 1,000 homeless dined like lobbyists. Though the gesture smacked slightly of "let 'em eat cake" largesse, Mitchell Snyder, director of the District of Columbia Community for Creative Non-Violence, which runs the shelter...
Bamb! Taylor fired the ball from the left point towards the Northeastern net, and with Spittle Blocked out., Eili Pew unload a stinging shot. The ball deflected off a Husky defender and onto the waiting stick of Trina Burnham, but the senior toward couldn't turn it into a Crimson tally...