1.   A recent Iranian request to purchase large amounts of American grains and sugar offers a timely and appropriate way to advance this reconciliation.

2.   But that goes against the American grain.

3.   But there is something about moderation that runs directly against the American grain.

4.   But to believe any less goes against the American grain, argued Jason McCabe Calacanis, the editor of the now-defunct Silicon Alley Reporter.

5.   Celebrity murders are very much in the American grain.

6.   Commodity prices are climbing, as is demand for American grain exports.

7.   Farmers and equipment makers want lower tariffs on American grain.

8.   It stopped in Djibouti to drop off American grain as part of a food aid shipment.

9.   No, she was one of us -- a real person, a shining testament to the common American grain.

10.   Some European food companies have asked for nonbiotechnology crops this year, and the American grain handlers say they will try their best.