Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected to take advantage of the extra sunlight and make a quick comeback. Scientists say that nutrients from the volcanic ash-such as phosphorus and potassium-could actually enhance their growth. As if to prove the point, some farm areas that were dusted with ash had record harvests of wheat and apples last year...
...didn't do it right, and it's going to hurt him." At week's end a new controversy threatened to erupt when it was learned that Haig, without properly consulting other Cabinet members, had given the French tacit approval to sell 600,000 tons of wheat to the Soviets. The White House attempted to play down the incident in the hope that it would blow over, but talk continued to float around Washington that Haig might resign, and that the White House was already looking for a successor...
...sell Warsaw more meat, dairy products and grain at 15% below the market price. Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski flew to Paris and Washington. The veteran negotiator met with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and won a pledge of $800 million in aid, plus shipments of surplus wheat. In Washington, Jagielski was received by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Vice President George Bush; they promised to sell Warsaw 50,000 tons of surplus butter and dried milk and to consider cooperating on rescheduling Poland's $3 billion U.S. debt...
...United Nations Disaster Relief Office (UNDRO). A team of UNDRO inspectors toured the affected areas in January. They were impressed with China's own emergency efforts; only 5,000 people have died so far. But they estimated that China would need 1.5 million tons of rice, wheat and other grains, along with medicine, clothing, blankets, seed, milk powder and additional necessities...
...blood tests. Moreover, the diet and chemical testing relies solely on the patient's reporting, a subjective process open to self-fulfilling prophecies. Says Dr. Sheldon Spector of Denver's National Jewish Hospital: "If you're convinced your teeth are going to itch when you eat wheat, then they will itch." Despite the dispute, desperate sufferers are eager to try "ecological medicine." Says Randolph, who has been treating such patients for a quarter-century, the past five years at a 20-bed facility at American International Hospital in Zion, Ill.: "I keep the beds filled...