Word: beefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishing annual compounded rate of 16.8%. That was more than double the rate for all of 1978 and the biggest monthly jump in four years. The index, which usually foreshadows trends in retail prices, was lifted in part by the soaring cost of farm products, especially beef and veal, which rose 13% for the month. But finished goods like cars and appliances rose at an even steeper pace...
Because strong demand has pushed up prices for wheat, beef and other products, farmers have managed to stay well ahead of inflation. By the Agriculture Department's reckoning, total farm income rose an impressive 40% last year, to about $28 billion, not far below the 1973 record of $33 bil lion. A Government-financed on-farm grain storage pro gram launched in the fall of 1977 is helping to maintain this prosperity...
...candidates, many of whom promised to undertake a membership drive, sponsor a speaker series, and beef up fundraising efforts, ran largely unopposed. Some club members charged that there had been efforts to keep potential candidates from running...
...really got a laugh out of your statement, "But farmers have been able to insulate themselves from stunning increases in food costs ... by producing much of what they eat." We farm and raise corn and soybeans. We have a small garden, but we do not raise beef, pork, eggs, chickens, wheat or coffee. If we ate only what we produced on our farm, we would...
...August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...