Word: beef
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bartley's Burger Cottage--Mass Ave. The best hamburgers in the Square, and possibly the world. We don't think there's a chef around who can do what Mr. Bartley can for a slab of chopped beef; we also doubt there are too many with the nerve to charge his prices, either. It's the classic hang-up: this place has a good thing going, and the owner knows it. But it's worth it to brave the crowd, shell out a couple of bucks, and suffer through the interminably slow service, just to sink your teeth into...
...mortgages and tuition bills and beef prices have jolted a majority of Americans into the realization that their way of life may depend on their understanding the U.S. economic system and helping to get it back in tune. In short, almost all Americans are in some way now linked with business concerns. There is a vague understanding that while capitalism is far from perfect and not even very romantic, as Political Commentator Irving Kristol explains, it performs the job of distributing goods and services, and preserving individual freedom, better than any other system...
People of all classes are practicing small and not so small economies. Many have been driven by the rocketing price of meat, especially beef, to buy cheap cuts. This trend will probably not be reversed by the Carter Administration's decision last week to let in 200 million more lbs. of imported beef-15% above the present limit-mostly of the kind used in hamburgers and hot dogs. At best that move will keep the price of a pound of hamburger 5? below the level it would have hit at the end of the year...
Germany, where $1 buys about 2.10 deutsche marks today, vs. four marks a decade ago, has become almost as expensive for the American as Tokyo. Beef is twice as expensive as it is in the U.S. Even in once cheap Munich, the famed liter, or Mass, of beer at Hofbräuhaus has quintupled in price since...
Formal aid would not be the only component of such a plan. One other step that the rich countries should take together is to lower the tariffs and scrap the quotas that keep many products of the LDCS-beef, sugar, cotton textiles, shoes -out of Northern markets. These rising barriers hurt precisely those LDCs, such as Argentina, Brazil, India and Mexico, that have the best chance of building sound economies based on a mix of industry and agriculture. The World Bank estimates that trade barriers cost LDCs $24 billion a year in lost exports of manufactured goods alone...