Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refused to join the walkout, his tires were slashed, or his radiator was punctured, or his truck was overturned. Part of the underpinning of a Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge near Homewood was dynamited. In Iowa, National Guard helicopters and state police cars had to escort a 71-truck convoy of beef and pork carcasses on their way to packing plants. A total of 1,500 guardsmen were escorting trucks through Ohio. All together, eight states were forced to call out National Guard troops to check the violence...
...council also had a beef of its own: It claimed that the state charter does not give it power to regulate the board, which is appointed by the city manager. Meanwhile, rent controls have lasted another week...
...United States set up an informal economic blockade, choking off normal lines of credit in all sectors but the military. The lack of credit and workers's demands for wages created shortages in the goods upper and middle class Chileans demanded: beef, wool, radios, cameras, machine parts...
...item that caused the biggest storm among consumers last year-lean red beef-has lately stayed remarkably stable in price. That is because the nation's meat supply in general has been large ever since early last fall, when ranchers and feed-lot operators rushed to sell animals held off the market during the so-called summer meat freeze. Now that livestock is dwindling, and the cycle has begun to swing toward shortages; Charles Wilson, economic research director for the big Iowa Beef Processors Inc., believes that beef supplies in the next few months may dip by an "almost...
...largely ineffective regulations of Phase III, drafted by Treasury Secretary George Shultz. At that point, in the view of many economists, the President lost whatever small chance he had to curb inflation with controls. In June the White House imposed a price freeze that eventually led to a distressing beef shortage, and last August it went on to the wage-price controls of Phase IV, which is widely regarded as a failure...