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...more militant promoters of the farm strike demand that the Government boost price props so much that the price of wheat and corn would about double, cattle would go up 69% and hogs 47%. Doing that, warn Government agricultural experts, would bust the budget, raise domestic supermarket prices and squeeze U.S. farm products out of foreign markets. But the Carter Administration has made no effort to squelch the farmers' protests or strike plans. Says Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland: "I've talked to the President. The protests are a legitimate expression of concern. We're watching with sympathy...
...king. Even at the climax of the play's final battle scene-in which Hotspur and Hal engage-it is Falstaff the comic spirit who steals the victory, a bit too successfully, quite literally from the jaws of death. As the two Hals meet, Falstaff staggers in to warn his friend that he will "find no boy's play here." But right on Falstaff's heels in Hotspur's ally, the Earl of Douglas. Seeing him, Falstaff drops to the ground and plays dead. Despite the ensuing fairly well-staged duel and despite the later blocking of Hal exactly between...
...proofs being rooted in the acceptance of causality--that causality does not exist? Needless to say, Toffler did not pursue that interesting philosophical question too far. After all, he had only an hour to speak. It is difficult to dismantle the foundations of knowledge and still have time to warn your audience of the third great revolution that is sweeping the world...
...worse, was another typical Christmas day scenario. Everyone was required, of course, to try on his or her old ski boots, just to make sure there weren't going to be "any problems" on the slopes. My father would become very angry at anyone who had the nerve to warn him that his or her boots were probably three sizes too small. Of course, there are absolutely no places to buy ski boots on Christmas. So the slip-up would invariably mean a quick trip to the local ski outfitting shop the next morning, meaning...
...operations soon became entangled in politics. The state government is still controlled by the Congress Party, but Prime Minister Morarji Desai's Janata Party hopes to capture it in elections next February. Inevitably, there were charges from New Delhi that the state had been negligent in failing to warn villagers and careless in rescue efforts. In truth, emergency operations were reasonably effective. If anything hampered the relief effort, it was the seemingly endless helicopter inspections by officials seeking credit for coping with the disaster...