Word: wheats
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...lack of similar reasoning applied to the Soviet Union is striking, to say the least. American wheat, technology, and investment are very important to the Soviet Union. (The effectiveness of economic sanctions against them, however, is doubted by almost all observers. Indeed, the current crackdown on Jews desiring to emigrate is linked by most Soviet experts to the Carter grain embargo and other souring facets of U.S./Soviet relations. Can we expect the same increase in internal harshness in South Africa as a result of hypothetical sanctions?) But we hear almost nothing, even from the Reagan Administration, about new sanctions...
...President charged the Common Market with unfairly subsidizing European wheat exports during the past four years, thereby undercutting U.S. grain prices and robbing American farmers of export sales worth $2 billion annually. The Administration's complaint against South Korea was that its patent and copyright laws do not adequately protect U.S. products and authors from counterfeiters. The cost to the U.S.: more than $170 million a year. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes indicated that the action against the Common Market and South Korea is only the beginning. The President is now considering twelve other unfair trade complaints...
...week the artery linking Lake Ontario and Lake Erie was suddenly choked off when a concrete wall in one of the Welland Canal's eight locks collapsed. A section of lock No. 7 slammed into the side of the Liberian-registered Furia, a ship carrying 16,000 tons of wheat from Milwaukee to Alexandria, Egypt. Nine other vessels were trapped inside the canal; 21 were stranded on the Lake Ontario side waiting to enter; an additional eight coming from such ports as Detroit, Chicago and Toledo queued up on the Lake Erie side, stalled on their way east...
...shortly before the seaway freezes up, although on occasion the seaway has been kept open an extra week or two when weather permitted. For Thunder Bay, Ont., the world's largest grain-exporting port, a lengthy shutdown could imperil the delivery of 6 million tons of Canadian wheat and animal feed bound for the Soviet Union. At the port of Milwaukee, ( 20,000 tons of food destined for famine victims in Africa and India last week sat piled up on the docks. Supplies headed for Midwestern factories were also laid up. Three ships carrying gigantic stamping presses for a General...
According to club members, four or five of the most serious riders compete every weekend--sometimes as far away as Pennsylvania. For example, at the end of September, Berggren finished in the field at the national Wheat Thins Classic Championships...