Word: beef
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roast-beef dinner with the residents and then joined in an informal discussion focusing mainly on ethics...
...acquiring some of Holly Farms' juicy parts. Omaha-based ConAgra, the No. 2 grower, agreed on a so-called lockup arrangement in which the Nebraska firm can buy some of Holly Farms' operations if the marauding Tyson succeeds in taking over. ConAgra, which already controls 20% of the U.S. beef industry, 33% of the lamb market and nearly 10% of broiler production, would like to bring Holly Farms' Weaver frozen-chicken label into the same shed with its Armour, Banquet and Country Pride brands. Tyson is now suing both companies in an attempt to overturn the lockup deal. Both Tyson...
American Indians of Harvard (AIH) plans to beef up membership recruitment, says Arnetta C. Girardeau '91. And the umbrella Asian American Association (AAA) will concentrate on an ongoing federal investigation of the College's admission of Asian-Americans, says AAA President Mark H.F. Kuo '90. He says the group also hopes to knit closer ties to graduate school students...
Specifically, academics must evaluate the effectiveness of Reagan's "peace through strength" philosophy--which led him to beef up defense and to arm "freedom fighters" around the world...
Rumbles of dissension in the military have also fueled the whispers. It is hardly surprising that Gorbachev's determination to beef up the civilian economy by paring military spending, including troop reductions and a cut in arms production by 19.5%, has rankled the security-preoccupied military. Two weeks ago a bimonthly military newspaper published a broadside blasting "pacifist calls to our countrymen asking irresponsibly for the Soviet Union unilaterally to 'turn swords into plowshares.' " The Kremlin quickly produced Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the former Chief of Staff, to pronounce his support for the cuts...