Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congressmen will fail in their crucial duty to separate the wheat from the chaff in these Pentagon dreambooks if every time they attempt to bring the Administration back to earth their political opponents brand them doves. The again, they might grow tired of the Administration's claim that only a sky's-the-limit missiles buildup budget can effectively communicate our seriousness to the Soviets and become bearish on defense. Either way, the country is not likely to get the affordable national security we need, which is just what happens when reason tails to govern...
...country remains much better at stockpiling weapons than wheat. Military- industrial production has always been the Soviet Union's paramount priority, and the country's best brains are devoted to it. Soviet scientists and technicians, many of them first-rate by any standard, have put cosmonauts in space and built intercontinental ballistic missiles of fearsome power. But while that talent is concentrated in the military establishment, the civilian economy goes begging...
...taken seriously. It still includes such party powers as House Majority Leader Jim Wright, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin and Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, an influential voice on military policy. Even two blacks, House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray of Pennsylvania and Missouri Congressman Alan Wheat, have joined. Their presence indicates that discontent with what is often regarded as weak and divided leadership by the National Committee has spread far beyond the ranks of Sunbelt whites...
Generally, however, we don't put such economic pressure on evil of divesting from all business in all objectionable geographical areas of the world, because that would be following moral outrage to its illogical conclusion. We do not boycott the American farmer because he sells wheat to the Soviet Union. We did not divest from companies that did business in the American South in the 1920s, when racism was institutionalized on a savage scale. And more realistically, we do not divest from companies doing business in Haiti. Chile. H Salvador, or a host of other nations, each with supported system...
Still, the milk price-support system was not unduly expensive until the early 1970s. Then drought and detente intervened: the sale of wheat to the Soviets in 1972 and the parched summer of 1974 drove up feed costs, resulting in lower dairy production and higher milk prices. To put more cows on-line, Congress in 1973 raised the minimum price support from 75% of parity...