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...life of the world. There in the night, under the dome of the sky, it was growing ..." In the decades since, production has doubled and redoubled until today the U.S. grows almost half of all the world's corn, two-thirds of its soybeans and more than a tenth of its wheat. Producing food is the nation's most efficient and most productive industry...
Cambridge Police found about five pounds of uncut cocaine worth an estimated $3-5 million during their raid Tuesday night on a tenth floor suite which the seven had rented earlier in the day, Petersen said...
...billion loan guarantee to the ailing Chrysler Corp. and sent the measure to the White House for Jimmy Carter's signature. The gigantic bailout, dwarfing the $250 million Lockheed loan guarantee of 1971, is designed to save from bankruptcy the nation's third largest automaker and tenth ranking manufacturer (1978 sales: $13.6 billion). With Chrysler's losses mounting daily, its 1979 deficit is almost sure to exceed $1 billion, the gaudiest splash of red ink in U.S. corporate history...
...even about the urgent need for biblical teaching. Seminary instruction in homiletics (the techniques of sermon preparation) is generally good. But to conservative critics this work is often undermined by Bible faculties. "Seminarians are not sure God is speaking in the Bible," says James Boice of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. "The professors think of the Bible as a collection of human documents. Centuries ago, even the heretics believed the Bible was the Word of God; they were just wrong in the way they interpreted...
...trying to sign a denial for review from his hospital bed. Nearly blind, he signed the bed sheet instead of the document. Justice William Douglas tried to exert influence even after he retired. He attempted to file a dissent in a campaign finance case and asked to have a tenth chair brought into the courtroom when the court heard oral arguments on the death penalty. Brennan, his old liberal ally...