Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year to $2,000. Ranchers' problems are in turn spilling over to related businesses. Austin Ryan, who sells rural machinery in Warracknabeal, Victoria, has cut his staff from 28 to three. Kevin Webb of Leeton, New South Wales, who is accustomed to selling up to 320 bins of wheat a season, has sold only four this year. Small outposts, which have no source of revenue outside of farming, may vanish altogether...
...climax of The Night of the Shooting Stars occurs when the group from San Martino, helping some partisans harvest a wheat field, is attacked by a band of Black shirts. What ensues is a grotesquely comic scene of carnage, as a lot of inexperienced people shoot at each other with pamcky clumsiness. A man runs into a childhood friend with a yelp of joy, only to riddle him with bullets: a girl embraces a long lost cousin in black shirt, but her husband pushes her aside with a rifle; both sides tending to their wounded, inadvertently borrow each other...
...made an impressive start on Bangladesh's troubles. He has revitalized the private sector by returning more than 300 industrial enterprises to private ownership. Ershad has jailed seven former Cabinet ministers on charges of corruption. He has reduced the price of such staples as rice, sugar and wheat, and he hopes to raise food-grain output 25% by 1986, mostly by Introducing higher-yield crops...
...this show. Old art cannot go anywhere by boat or train (too much jarring); to travel at all, it must fly, and nothing survives a plane crash. To take the nightmare by the ears, suppose the Caravaggio Deposition ends up distributed, in a thousand charred shreds, across a Midwestern wheat field. What then? It would put an end to international loans of major works of art, and the exhibition programs of all museums (though not necessarily art scholarship itself) would be halted or hobbled for a generation...
WICHITA. Four years ago, this community's fortunes were so high that its main problem was finding enough workers to accept its jobs. A bustling producer of meat, wheat, planes, oil and gas, Wichita (pop. 279,000) had the remarkably low unemployment rate of 2.8%. With rows of aerospace plants and enormous grain elevators rising from the prairies, it exuded a robust self-confidence. But the aircraft industry, as well as others, nosedived. More than 20,000 workers were laid off, and the unemployment rate is now 8.5%. "If we can just get people through the next...