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...Government's own price behavior. As economists tirelessly point out, Government departments and regulatory agencies, in an effort to please narrow constituencies, often adopt policies that spur rather than slow inflation. For example, the Agriculture Department is now buying up $100 million worth of "excess" beef and pork in a deliberate effort to keep prices paid to farmers and feed-lot operators from dropping. Federal regulatory agencies often set railroad, truck and barge freight rates high enough to protect the most inefficient carriers from competitive damage. A separate federal agency should be empowered specifically to watch for such practices...
...Ridder papers include such varied properties as the Journal of Commerce, a useful if pork-belly plain compendium of business news; Colorado's folksy Boulder Daily Camera (circ. 22,380); and the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, which occasionally outshines its bigger Twin City sisters. In general, however, the Ridder papers do not have the heft and influence of the Knight dailies. Though the Knight brothers are both conservatives, the papers are what Hills describes as "central progressive." In the 1972 election six Knight papers endorsed Richard Nixon and two backed George McGovern; only two echoed John Knight...
...last month have gone from $25 to $38.57 -still below their peaks last August. In response to farm-belt complaints that prices previously had dropped so low as to threaten bankruptcies among some animal raisers and feedlot operators, the Government is buying up $100 million of "excess" beef and pork for use in its school-lunch program, and has asked Australia and New Zealand to "voluntarily" restrain meat exports...
...driver husband Pete (Michael Sarrazin) is 32 years old and still trying to pull himself through college. One early summer's day, Pete's dispatcher down at the garage passes along a hot commodities-market tip: a trade deal with the Russians will make the price of pork bellies go through the roof come July. All Pete needs is $3,000 capital. He is without much enterprise (let it not be forgotten that Michael Sarrazin is not the star of this movie), so Henrietta goes out to get the grubstake. This initially involves doing business with a loan...
...administrative assistant and veteran campaign manager Dick Clark stepped in to accept the Democratic nomination. Though virtually unknown to voters, Clark made a 1,312-mile walking tour of the state and upset a two-term Republican incumbent. An outspoken critic of old-style politics and pork-barreling, he exerted major influence in shaping the Senate's campaign reform bill, is now seeking to bring federal regulation to the often chaotic commodity exchanges...