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...many companies, including Hilton, Intercontinental and Marriott. On both sides of the Sinai, tourist officials foresee a bonanza as international travelers rush to visit both countries in a single trip. Says Fuad Shady, an official of the Nile Hilton: "We have the greatest tourist package in the world???the Holy Land combined with the world of the Pharaohs?and a great year-round climate...
Washington also could help all farmers?and the world???by pushing agricultural exports even harder. For example, U.S. negotiators at the world trade talks in Geneva might insist that the nation will do nothing to open the U.S. market wider to European and Japanese goods unless industrialized nations let in more American-grown food. The Government might also expand its aid?$10 million this year ?to farmers who organize cooperative groups that develop foreign markets. One tempting target: China, which has just begun to buy U.S. meat and grain and could use more. Carter has signed...
...world???has more than doubled the price of U.S. farm land since 1972, to an average $490 an acre last February; prime Midwestern corn and soybean land sells for $2,000 an acre. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 may cost almost twice as much now; it would have a few new features, but be no more powerful. The result is that farmers have been forced into financing decisions as intricate as those facing corporate treasurers. Borrowing money at interest rates of up to 12% to buy or rent additional land and invest in machinery can improve...
...Fran stayed introduced them. Fran is the secretary of Benedict Farms and does the bookkeeping. During planting and harvesting seasons she also runs the farm's communications network, relaying messages by private FM radio band between Pat's pickup truck, the other machines in the fields and the outside world???meanwhile whipping up quick meals for all members of the family whenever they come in from the fields, even if that...
...income will go into four more temples (in Seattle, Tokyo, Mexico City and American Samoa) and 600 buildings under way around the world???all to be paid for in full before dedication. All Mormon young men are supposed to devote two years to missionary work between their education and their careers. For many of the 26,500 now in the field, the task will broaden horizons and hone speaking and selling skills for advancement in business...