Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic producers to make a profit on their crops. But the nation's 5,000 sugarcane and 15,000 sugar-beet growers found that world prices were continuing to drop so fast that even with the subsidy they were losing money. At the same time, the major sugar-user firms, such as the Coca-Cola Co., General Foods Corp. and Nestlé Alimentana, were more than happy with Carter's program because it kept prices low and increased their profits...
Many farm-state Senators and Congressmen muttered, perhaps unfairly, that Carter's policy was chiefly intended to benefit Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, which is the nation's biggest commercial sugar user, accounting for about 10% of annual U.S. consumption, and is headed by his longtime friend J. Paul Austin. At a Senate hearing, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long told Bergland, "I would call the existing sugar program a Coca-Cola program." Replied White House Aide Lynn Daft: "The Coca-Cola charge is an outrage." Still, in a July 7 memo to Carter, White House Assistant Stuart Eizenstat recommended that...
...years ago. At the same time, the chips are radically lowering the cost of the minicomputers. These small computers, in turn, are being used for more and more of the routine functions that until recently had to be handled by main frames - at considerable cost to the user...
...Finally, an eagle-eyed computerized probe scans the wafer for defective circuitry and marks the bad chips in red. The wafer is then separated by a diamond cutter, the bad chips are discarded and the good ones externally wired, sealed in plastic or metal and shipped off to the user...
...placed it against handsome, mood-filled back drops. The inside of Venus' home, for example, is a steadily shifting vision of pools, waterfalls, trysting places and writhing bodies. Much of its look is achieved with rear projections on a curved, cyclorama-type screen. The dissolution of Venusberg as Tannhäuser is expelled is both swift and wizardry...