In an early "60 Minutes" essay that won him the third of his four Emmy Awards, his compromise to the grain embargo against the Soviet Union was to sell them cereal.

一次早期的《60分钟》评短节目为他赢得了第三次艾美奖(他个人获得过四次艾美奖)，那次节目中，他认为与其实行对苏联的粮食禁运，其折衷方案不如向他们出售谷类食品。

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In the 1980s, however, those same farmers were crushed by the Soviet grain embargo, double-digit interest rates, a worldwide recession and high energy costs.

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Dr Feng counters fears about a grain embargo, by pointing out that any land used in other food production could fairly quickly be re-converted to grain in an emergency.

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The stage is set, Grice says, for a permanent step up in grain prices, just as oil prices jumped following the 1973 Arab oil embargo.

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