Word: beef
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Armed with a list of six items, TIME Moscow correspondent Ann Blackman set out last week to see what Soviet consumers experience when they try to buy even the most basic goods. On Blackman's list: beef, apples, carrots, sugar, laundry soap and toothpaste...
...will close in 15 minutes for an hour-long lunch break, a saleslady tries to keep me from entering. But others push past her, so I join the rush. A refrigerated bin holds brown paper bags filled with ground meat, half a dozen scrawny chickens and four packages of beef -- fatty, mostly bone and covered in grimy cellophane -- priced at $1.60 per lb. I stand in line for 14 minutes and buy a 2-lb. package of beef. There had been some sugar that morning, an employee informs me, and there may be some in the afternoon. I pass...
...eating U.S. beef hazardous to one's health because of the hormones that most American ranchers give their cattle? The case for fear is flimsy, yet it has set off a rancorous and potentially costly trade battle between the U.S. and the European Community...
...when the E.C. banned imports of meat from animals treated with growth-inducing hormones. Since more than half the 35 million U.S. cattle sent to market each year receive at least a small amount of hormones, the ruling blocked European imports of $140 million worth of American beef. The Reagan Administration immediately struck back, imposing 100% tariffs on $100 million worth of West German hams, Italian tomatoes and other foods. Last week the E.C. said in effect that unless the dispute is resolved by the end of January, it will counter-retaliate with 100% tariffs on $100 million worth...
...tussle adds to U.S. fears that Europe's movement toward a unified market in 1992 will raise increasing barriers to outside competition. The beef war already shows signs of escalating. E.C. officials are preparing a list of U.S. food imports as counterretaliatory targets. Among them: dried fruit, canned corn and honey...