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...grain for beef that only the wealthy can afford. Indirectly, then, a growing cattle population threatens humans on the low end of the economic scale with hunger. D. Gale Johnson, an agricultural economist at the University of Chicago, questions this assumption. He notes that in China, beef consumption has risen in tandem with overall improvements in diet...
...speech announcing the "yes" vote in the referendum, President de Klerk said, "It doesn't often happen that in one generation a nation gets the opportunity to rise above itself." The U.S. has already risen above itself twice during the Bush administration alone: in repelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, and in creating a Marshall-type aid program for the consolidation of democracy in Russia...
Medoff's study also says that since 1975 the number of unemployed who claim that their job losses are permanent has risen 11 permanent, from 33 to 44 percent...
...things awry. Chanticleer has forgotten to crow, and somehow the sun has risen any way. Ridiculed by his barnyard friends, the frustrated fowl voyages to "The city" in search of a higher fame and fortune. He aspires to be a singer...
Economically, the situation is mixed. France enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world, but the latest figures on unemployment show a rise to a near record 9.9%. Austerity measures have held inflation to a remarkable 3.1%, even lower than that in Germany. But wages have risen less still, prompting protests not just by industrial workers but also by nurses, judges, social workers and other public employees, leading in turn to a feeling that public order is breaking down...