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...came in South Dakota, where Democrat Tom Daschle turned Republican Senator James Abdnor's ads against him. When we last tuned in, Abdnor was running a commercial linking Daschle to Actress Jane Fonda, who, the ad incorrectly claimed, eschewed red meat -- not a trifling charge in a state where beef is a leading farm product. During the three weeks that the ad aired, Abdnor made up about ten points in the polls. Then Daschle decided to attack the attack with an ad showing a bunch of cigar-smoking pols discussing ways to smear Daschle. "We'll distort the farm thing...
Harrington intends to continue with the present environmental protection laws established by retiring Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti, and he wants to beef up the prosecution of criminal cases by creating an organized-crime strike force, a drug strike force, and a larger staff for investigating corruption, said Manning...
...James Abdnor found himself trailing telegenic Democrat Tom Daschle by nine points, he unleashed a barrage of TV spots charging that his rival had consorted at a congressional hearing with Fonda, conservative America's most reviled radical. Fonda, Abdnor pointed out, had urged people not to eat red meat; beef and pork are among South Dakota's biggest farm products. The upshot: Abdnor has now pulled slightly ahead...
...alternative menus. I was especially happy that I would be able to have it may way at the local Burger King once they began to sell something chickeny for my late-night gastronomical pleasure. Little did I know, though, that Burger King was cooking their chicken sandwich in deadly beef fat, as opposed to more healthful vegetable oil, and was throwing enough salt onto the thing to melt a polar icecap...
...heart should not have come as a shock, though. I spent a few weeks in the spring of 10th grade working at a Taco Bell outlet in town. My most lasting memory of my tenure there is of the time the manager, Jack, asked me to get some beef out of the freezer. When I returned to tell him that the meat was a most peculiar shade of green, he told me not to worry: "No one will notice once we cook it, Steve...