Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility. In our desire to see to it that all children in America are adequately fed, housed, clothed, educated and kept healthy, let us take care that we do not undermine the role of parents in the lives of their children...
...responsibility ought to be to correct the gross national deficiencies in education. We ought to target our resources to try to beef up those areas where there are deficiencies. We've got to spend more money on the inner city. We are the only industrialized nation not to have elevated education to a level where a chief of state has an equivalent to a ministry of education: we ought to have a department of education...
Touchy Issue. Eraser's talks with Ford, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and other officials centered mainly on common defense interests and trade, with the P.M. pressing the U.S. to import more beef from Down Under. Australia last year bought $2 billion worth of goods from the U.S., which in return spent only $1 billion in Australia. The very size of the overseas economic presence in Australia, where U.S. firms account for 40% of the $14.6 billion total in foreign investments, is also becoming an irritant; with Australian nationalism running strong, Fraser has set guidelines whereby U.S. and other...
...also turned what promised to be a record British grain harvest into a disaster, lowering harvest expectations from 17.5 million tons to an anticipated 13.8 million. The grain shortage, in turn, is expected to drive the price of animal feed up by some 20%, thus raising the price of beef. Agricultural losses in Germany could be as much as $2 billion...
...anticipated 108 million tons, will be harvested this year, says Petrus Lardinois, the European Economic Community's farm commissioner. The sugar-beet crop will probably total 9.5 million tons-1.5 million tons below expectations. Lacking fodder, many farmers are slaughtering part of their livestock herds. There is a beef glut right now-and the chance of a shortage next winter...