Word: beef
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the prizes were based. A draft peace treaty had just been tentatively approved, though both the Egyptians and the Israelis had requested some changes. Then, in a bizarre and even provocative gesture, the Israeli government announced that it was launching a $20 million program to "thicken," or beef up, five Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. The move was calculated by Begin and his colleagues to warn the Carter Administration that it must behave more circumspectly in its conduct of the peace negotiations, and the message got through. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance quickly...
...America's best hope to counter the trade challenge presented by the oilmen of Araby and the energetic manufacturers of Japan. U.S. food exports would be higher still were it not for a variety of barriers: outrageous quotas that keep Japanese consumers from buying as much U.S. beef and fruit as they would like, variable tariffs that hold the prices of American foodstuffs in the European Community above those of locally grown items, and the inability of the hungry underdeveloped nations to scrape up enough cash to buy more U.S. meat and grain...
...sometimes is for Pat. She goes along on most of Pat's frequent trips to meetings of farm organizations in big cities, but she is most at home in her kitchen, where she is a master of the Pillsbury Bake-Off school of roast-beef-and-apple-pie cuisine...
...banquet consists of several dozen delicacies, orchestrated with regard for flavor, texture and color. Each begins like an opera, with an enticing overture leading ineluctably on toward the major arias. Because they lack space for pasturage, the central Chinese south of the Yellow River do not eat much beef or lamb. Most specialties are based on chicken, duck, pork, bountiful vegetables and a huge variety of fresh-and saltwater fish and shellfish. It is basically a cuisine of survival, in which every last conceivably usable ingredient goes into the pot. How about smoked ducks' tongues? Fish eyes and spiced...
Seven grand a year, ma, and we can't even beat Columbia and Cornell. Heck, the best thing about the football games these days are the tasty roast beef sandwiches in the press...