Word: pietsch
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...cost of farming and could encourage younger people to get into agriculture. Another is that an end to obsolete limits on production will better position trade-savvy farmers to compete in markets overseas. Democrat Kent Conrad has warned of a "disaster" if the cuts are indiscriminate. But Bill Pietsch, vice president of the North Dakota Farm Bureau in Fargo, a Republican-tilted outfit, puts it this way: "Our people will swear. We expect our Senators to swear. But as these payments are reduced, most of North Dakota will continue to be farmed...
...shock of 1973, most West European economies are on relatively solid ground. None are more robust than West Germany's, which is expected to grow 4% this year, despite the financial burdens of unification. More remarkably, a united German economy should still expand 3.5% in 1991, predicts Peter Pietsch, an economist at Frankfurt's Commerzbank. Bonn has been bolstered by a strong deutsche mark, which this year has gained 8% in value against the dollar, the currency in which oil trading is done. Nevertheless, energy will be one of the many problems facing a united Germany. Says Robert Hormats, vice...