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August 31, 1988
A Southern California agency that supplies food to programs for the poor is looking for transportation for 10 truckloads of cantaloupes donated by a San Joaquin Valley packing house. Chris Renner, associate director of Food Partnership, which channels food to six food banks, said the nonprofit organization has been unable to move the melons from a warehouse in Firebaugh because no trucks are available. Normally, he said, the California Trucking Assn.
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CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 31, 1988
A Southern California agency that supplies food to programs for the poor is looking for transportation for 10 truckloads of cantaloupes donated by a San Joaquin Valley packing house. Chris Renner, associate director of Food Partnership, which channels food to six food banks, said the nonprofit organization has been unable to move the melons from a warehouse in Firebaugh because no trucks are available. Normally, he said, the California Trucking Assn.
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October 25, 1997 | From Associated Press
Bumper harvests in several farm states have forced elevators to dump grain on the ground, and now a rail-car shortage is keeping it there. Blaming the problem on Union Pacific Railroad's problem-plagued merger with Southern Pacific, Midwestern lawmakers are asking federal officials for priority status for their states' elevators and export stations to allow shipments to port facilities.
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March 20, 1988 | KENNETH E. SHARPE and MORRIS BLACHMAN, Kenneth E. Sharpe is a professor of political science at Swarthmore College. Morris Blachman teaches international studies at the University of South Carolina. They are the authors of "Confronting Revolution: Security Through Diplomacy in Central America" (Pantheon Books, 1986).
On the eve of the National Assembly election in El Salvador, policy-makers in Washington were still asking the self-serving question: Will the voting create a "workable" civilian government, one with enough legitimacy in the eyes of the U.S. Congress to ensure continued financing of the Reagan Administration's "counter-insurgency" strategy?
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April 28, 2008 | Michael T. Klare, Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author of "Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy."
Among the many reasons given for the recent surge in gas prices is China's soaring demand for petroleum. Because the Chinese are running around the world buying up every available barrel of oil, the argument goes, we Americans have to pay that much more to outbid them for the leftover pools of crude. And the fact that the Chinese yuan has been growing stronger while the American dollar is shrinking in value has only exacerbated the problem. Unquestionably, there's some truth to this.
