Word: wheats
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...Fernando Ed, it seems, is no isolated case. Today illegally grown pot is the nation's fourth largest cash crop. Law-enforcement officials insist that it ranks just behind corn, soybeans and wheat in market value. Last year's marijuana harvest had an estimated street value of $8.5 billion; in each of more than 30 states, law-defying entrepreneurs produced crops worth at least $100 million at retail. California's harvest, worth an almost unbelievable but reasonably documented $1.5 billion at retail, led the list. Hawaii was second; its $750 million crop rivaled the sugar-cane...
...such as the pipeline, offers jobs and less costly energy to a continent with an unemployment rate of approximately 10 percent and no natural gas reserves. Reagan himself does not offer a very good example, having bowed last year to economic and political pressure in lifting the embargo on wheat purchases by the Soviet Union imposed by Jimmy Carter. Thus the narrow-minded logic of the U.S. pipeline policy is rejected as inadequate--even by those who generally endorse Reagan's tough stance toward Soviet communism...
REAGAN has made his economic initiatives paramount to all others, even to his anti-Soviet strategies, as the resumption of the wheat sales attest. European leaders ask how Reagan dares ask them to cancel the pipeline, a central element of their economic recovery plans, when he has shown different priorities back home...
...hours after morning vigil are for personal prayer and an informal breakfast, the one meal the brothers do not take in common. Eating almond granola, fresh fruit and a delicious home-baked whole wheat bread, they can look through the refectory's east window and see a tracery of pink clouds on the horizon and wisps of mist flitting across the priory pond. Six times each day the brothers come together to read the Gospel, meditate, pray and share insights into the Scriptures. Recurring themes such as God's infinite love for his creatures and people returning...
Conservation may forestall the end. Farmers can simply use less water. They are already converting from profitable but water-thirsty corn to water-thrifty crops such as wheat, sorghum and cotton. James Mitchell, a cotton farmer from Wolfforth, Texas, has installed an experimental center-pivot sprinkler that, instead of spraying outward, gently drops water directly into the planted furrows, thereby reducing evaporation. Sophisticated laser-guided land graders can now almost perfectly flatten the terrain so that water is not wasted in runoff. Electrodes planted in the fields can measure soil wetness and determine exactly when water is needed. Today, these...