Word: goode
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months. Western experts believe the Soviets will try not to reduce their cattle herds by much because they are hard to rebuild and beef is the meat that every Soviet citizen wants most. The winter has been mild so far, and there is a good chance that by May the grass will be up and cattle can be sent out to graze...
...Just as good earth and climate around Epernay, France, provide nature's ideal spot for nurturing champagne grapes, the Midwest's long growing season, heavy spring or summer rains and rich, two-foot-deep topsoil are perfect for grain cultivation. Kansas and Oklahoma are wheat country. Just north in the hardy soil of Illinois and Iowa lie the great corn belt and vast fields of soybeans. Farther north, in the Dakotas and Minnesota, grow wheat, soybeans, sugar beets. Here is the richest farm land east of Eden, where the biblical seven years of bountiful harvests are usually followed...
Grain farms in Cass County, N. Dak., one of the largest counties in the state, average 1,000 acres, and good wheatland costs $1,500 an acre. Thus the typical Cass County farmer is running a business worth $1.5 million just for property. Then comes equipment. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 now costs at least twice as much, and farmers already talk glumly about the advent of $100,000 combines...
...Boone a midmorning slump had hit him and some of his power waned. He gave rambling answers to questions about the Soviets and about abortion. But his adrenaline was pumping again among Iowa State University students in Ames. His speech was good, though undistinguished; a firm call for a restoration of America's control over its own destiny. There was an impatience about Ted Kennedy, as if he were rushing away from the past into a dangerous but strangely exhilarating future. Something calling him. It is clear he does not have the depth and breadth of intellect of John...
...Kennedy is not up against Wayne Morse or Gene McCarthy or, for that matter, Richard Nixon. Nor is he performing in an experimental and not quite matured communications environment. Indeed, television may be one reason why America tends to disparage all the men running for President. They are very good in this bizarre world of show-business politics-and there are a lot of them. But they also have become electronically (meaning superficially) well known to their audiences. In such a crowded and intense drama, nobody really stands strikingly above the others...