Word: bread
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...remotest villages, the single tiny shop carried all the basic medicines--at unbelievably low prices, the government paid two-thirds of the price. He would have seen the government hospitals and clinics found in every small town. He would have seen that in late 1978 the price of bread, tea, sugar, and other basic necessities was the same as 15 years before, because the government picked up three-fourths...
Grain farmers had bin-bursting harvests in 1979, and that was for the fifth year in a row. Farmers raised a record 7.6 billion bu. of corn. Much of it, 60%, will be used as animal feed; only about 10% will be consumed directly by Americans, usually in bread, breakfast cereal and fructose (a sweetener). The remainder, before Carter's embargo, was destined for export, along with 36% of the 1979 crop of soybeans and 60% of the year's wheat. The embargo is expected to reduce overall exports from the '79 grain crop by 8%. Most export grain travels...
...abundant American harvests arrived just in time to satisfy a meat-hungry world. More affluent and more demanding consumers around the globe wanted beef, pork and poultry rather than simply bread and cereals. As a result, the vast majority of American agricultural production is for animal rather than human consumption. Ninety percent of the corn crop is fed to livestock, while soybeans are the largest single source of protein for animals...
...saving of about $500 million on its oil import bill. Moonshiners can distill a lower proof ethanol from such materials as corn, sugar cane, potato peelings, even garbage or grass. Says Victor Ray, an alcohol expert at the National Farmers Union "It is about as complicated as making bread. We tell farmers that if they cannot do it, their wives certainly...
Maybe it's the foods they prefer-lamb, lightly cooked vegetables, whole wheat bread, raw sugar. Or perhaps, the air of artistic freedom they have been breathing. Whatever the causes, Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov, the Soviet figure skaters who defected last fall, are performing like teenagers, although he is 47 and she, 44. The Protopopovs left home because they were no longer able to do the routines that gained them two Olympic gold medals and transformed figure skating from muscular jumps into frozen ballet. Now they can, on a U.S. tour with the Ice Capades, which features the pair...