Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Points to the last sibilants Of invading beef and calico...
Heavy Hitter. To beef up his goofball outfit, Buttermaker recruits a couple of sawed-off powerhouses. Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), the tomboy daughter of an old flame of Buttermaker's, is expert in the fine art of the fastball and the spitter; Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley), a local terror who chain smokes and rides a Harley, is a heavy hitter. He also has the hots for Amanda. With Kelly and Amanda on the team, the Bears start...
...shelf prices actually fell from January to February; the decline was only 1.5%, but it was the biggest monthly slide in the grocery component of the consumer price index since the early 1950s. The sharpest drop occurred in the area where housewives had been hit hardest: the meat case. Beef prices plunged 6% as cattlemen, reacting to dwindling demand, trimmed the sizes of their herds and pumped beef onto the market. Beef prices may well rebound in coming weeks as supplies begin to tighten again: when store prices begin to edge up, hamburger will probably rise relatively more than prime...
...just a worker now," Holcombe said yesterday while spooning down beef stew during his break. "Being a shop steward is a thankless job and I'll never do it again," he said...
...company's protests raise anew a difficult question: How should companies or individuals reply to news and documentary programs when they have a beef? Allowing them to buy rebuttal time does not seem very satisfactory; wealthy interest groups or people could flood the air with self-serving propaganda, to the disadvantage of less affluent opponents...