Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson duo of sophomore Kim Cooper and junior Amy deLone reached the semifinals of the Flight 1 doubles competition, before falling to UNC's Valerie Farmer and Alisha Portnoy, 6-4, 6-1. Farmer and Portnoy upset the top-seeded Tiger team of Lauren Fortgang and Gardner in the first round...
Working with the Soviet embassy in Washington and the Soviet Ministry for Agriculture, the Dulls set up a unique Soviet-American farm-exchange program. They would spend six months on the Ukraina kolkhoz (collective farm), while a Soviet farmer, Viktor Polormarchuk, worked on their spread back in Brookville. (From his letters home, Polormarchuk's wife Valentina reports that her husband is working hard, has lost several pounds and talks about doing some private farming of his own when he returns to the Soviet Union.) "Mikhail Gorbachev's new proposals ((for liberalizing the economy)) fit in exactly with what we think...
Bauer is a pseudonym that is also German for farmer. The man could easily have been portrayed as larger than life. His strength, character, knowledge and skills are that impressive. Rhodes takes the all-in-a-day's-work approach, except that most of the workdays seem to be 20 hours long. Tom and wife Sally are awakened by the 6 a.m. farm reports: "They listened to hog and cattle and grain prices and then planned the day's business, sometimes with a little monkey business thrown...
...team, Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Laura Lopez and reporter John Maier, made its own treks through the region. Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in the region, politician and peasant alike, knew that the Amazon was the subject of intense international debate. In speaking with one poor farmer near the Peruvian border, Maier reports, "As soon as I began asking questions, the farmer said to me, 'Whose side are you on, the environmentalists' or ours?' " That question, Maier knew, has no simple answer...
...farmer backlash is bad news for the U.S. and Japan's other trade partners. The L.D.P. will now think long and hard before opening markets any further. In coming months Japan and the U.S. are to start talking about changing Japan's arcane retail-distribution system, which American businessmen perceive as a primary obstacle to getting their goods into Japanese stores. The L.D.P., hardly a speed demon in trade talks, will now be forced to move even more slowly, both to protect itself politically and to accommodate the strengthened voice of the protectionist J.S.P. Hiroshi Nukui of the Socialists' policymaking...