Word: yield
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...this summer putting together some more good luck to hand to the President in the fall. Unless there is unprecedented capriciousness on the part of nature in the next few days, the heavy ears of corn will mature by the trillions. They will either set a new record for yield, more than 127 bu. per acre, or come so close it hardly matters. And the soybeans, with almost human cunning, are making quite a show of their last 6 in. of growth. Forecasters expect them to disgorge a torrent of protein and set their own record, more than...
Some FBI agents nonetheless wanted to convene a grand jury in the hope that under oath some of the people named in the IRS reports might yield clues to Hoffa's fate. The Justice Department turned them down. Says one FBI agent: "Can you imagine the scene? Fitzsimmons, the Pressers, White House aides, Nixon Administration officials all trooping in; questions about Teamster campaign contributions and 'exchange targets'-it would have been a replay of Watergate. Nobody in the department wanted that." So the FBI investigation wound up last year without results, and the contents of the Daley...
Ironically, one key purveyor of the bad news to the Soviets has been the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So accurate have its forecasts of Soviet yields proved in the past that the distribution of DOA news bulletins in Washington this summer regularly attracted Soviet journalists. According to U.S. specialists who have analyzed satellite photos of Soviet farm land and who have also visited rural areas, the 1981 grain yield will amount to less than 185 million metric tons-21.6% below the target of 236 million in the current Soviet five-year plan. Grain production will be up imperceptibly from...
...would thus endanger the esprit of the movement. The longstanding question-Would starvation bring results?-was raised again early this year by prison leaders and debated for hours up and down the blocks. Some of the inmates spoke into the darkness and predicted glumly that the British would never yield. Such comments were usually met with silence. The men were asked to consider the proposal for one week and then volunteer if they felt ready...
...royalties in 1981, then to the profits from 2 bbl. of oil daily in 1982, then 3 bbl. in 1985 and thereafter. The tax on newly discovered oil will also drop, from 30% to 15% in 1986. Small independent oil producers who get crude from low-yield "stripper wells" will be exempted altogether in 1983. Despite Democratic protests that the provision is a giveaway to big oil, it benefits wildcatters far more than giants such as Exxon and Mobil. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan is probably right when he argues that the exemptions will help produce "whatever crude...