Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cate in Chicago, Correspondent Madeleine Nash marshaled stringers (part-time correspondents) to assess reaction to the embargo in the farm states and tapped her own agriculture sources. Patricia Delaney reported on the hectic commodities trading at the Chicago Board of Trade, while David Jackson interviewed experts on the gasohol program. Barry Hillenbrand, who had been following Ted Kennedy's efforts to explain his candidacy to Iowa's voters, broke away to join Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland as he tried to explain the Administration's grain-sales policy to the state's farmers. During...
...limit the damage at home, the Administration announced that it would bail out U.S. farmers and exporters from their unfulfilled Soviet grain contracts. The Government will offer some of the grain to hungry Third World nations, use some in a stepped-up gasohol program, and store the remainder until it can be sold without disrupting markets. The price tag for the program may top $4 billion, including the cost of the exporters' contracts, storage fees, and extra support loans to farmers...
...protected farmers from disastrous drops in grain prices. Until the early 1970s the Agriculture Department bought farmers' surpluses and stored them temporarily in huge and expensive granaries. The department also paid farmers millions to take some of their land out of production?perhaps the biggest and most expensive support program the U.S. ever had. This all changed when Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz took advantage of the worldwide grain shortage to sell the Government's storage facilities and urged farmers to plant from "fence post to fence post." At the same time, Congress rewrote the farm-support law so that nearly...
January 11: I have run my program. It definitely doesn't work. I show the contorted output to my friends. They laugh. I am not laughing. I am calling my section man again. What can I tell him? I just don't know what to do. So I say "I honestly don't know what to do to fix this thing." He is flustered for a second before having an epiphany and figuring out how to explain...
...built?"we are a group of young people, devotees of the symbol, misunderstood by a world which mocks us Mystics! Lord, I pray you, may our reign come!" The desire for coherent symbols ?religious, mystical, anything but political?was as important a part of the early modernist program as the desire to purify art to flat patches of color on a flat surface. B Gauguin wanted to make vast allegories of human fate; Edvard Munch, in Norway, elaborated an entire structure of symbolism to describe the 1 inner world that Freud, in the 1890s, was beginning to approach through...