Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous occupant, Nick's Bar, formerly Nick's Beef and Beer House, closed six months ago after 28 years on the site...
Perhaps because of Europe's deeper suspicions of Big Business, the food fight has prompted a regulatory go-slow on the Continent. One factor is the scare that erupted in 1996 over "mad cow" disease in British beef. Though the disease was caused by feeding animal parts to cows, rather than by genetic meddling, the panic left consumers extremely wary about what goes onto the family dinner table. Herbert Krach of the Swiss Small Farmers Union notes, "For years scientists assured us that feeding animal-based feeds to cattle was harmless." But the cautions also owe something to romantic...
...knows why the Kinki team managed to bat .800 (while Dolly's creators needed 29 embryos to get one hit). Japanese scientists hope to learn more when other calves--cloned from liver, kidney and heart cells--are born next spring. The beef industry is anxiously awaiting the answer: the clones come from a line of prize cows whose meat sells for $100 a pound...
...more. Less than two months after Mubarak's visit, the Turks got so mad at the Italians that everyone seemed to forget what the beef with the Syrians had been about. When I tried to remember, what came to mind instead was reading at around the same time about a crisis between Iran and Afghanistan--two countries that you'd think might be bound together by a shared affection for arresting women who show their faces in public. I couldn't remember reading about anybody going to defuse it. Did that mean it was still fused...
...optimism, a booming-voiced tiger like Tony and a benevolent Green Giant today come across as quaint throwbacks to the time when sugared breakfast cereals could still claim to provide an ideal start to the perfect day, and when mushy canned peas nestled alongside a piece of fat-marbled beef represented a healthy diet. Though Burnett's corporate talismans endure, they occupy a world where consumers are increasingly caustic about the products that they purchase. The effort by marketers to capitalize on the cynical mind-set of an mtv generation has overwhelmed the quest for universal human archetypes. Jadedness...