Word: butchering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When asked where the escapees were being held, the spokesman refused to be specific, saying only that "the rabbits are now in prearranged responsible homes, forever safe from the butcher's knife...
...businessmen who conceived it as a profit-making venture as well as a civic-spirited showcase. The fair and adjacent real estate developments were financed by an intricate combination of private money and, to a much larger extent, public funds. Nearly all the deals have a common connection: Jake Butcher, 46, a Knoxville banking magnate and twice a candidate for Governor. Banker Bert Lance, Butcher's friend and Jimmy Carter's ill-starred budget chief, made the entrées necessary to arrange for $43.5 million in federal subsidies and talked Egypt into participating. Another Butcher friend, Jesse...
Says University of Tennessee Political Scientist Joseph Dodd, a sharp critic of the fair: "City resources are being used to benefit a small number of wealthy people. There's a direction to the flow of money. The direction always comes back to the Butcher network...
...organizers are unapologetic. "The investors took a capital risk," says Tom O'Brian, a New York banker involved in the fair's private financing. "I see nothing wrong with a return commensurate with that risk." As for Butcher, he is nonchalant about his role. "Every project," he says, "needs a shepherd." By staging a "super barn burner" of a World's Fair, he claims, Knoxville "got 30 years of growth in five years...
...leave their home states and go to neighboring ones with legal abortions; illegal clinics will set high prices for their Black Market skills. These "Coathanger Closets" or "Vacuum Alleys" would endanger lives; pregnant patients would never be certain whether their abortion was performed by a doctor, nurse, midwife, or butcher. Other choices creep up on the desperate mother-to-be the home-made, self-executed method, used for centuries before modern science and legal abortions, could grow popular again; many women would understandably rather risk injury or death than have their secret exposed. In cases of extreme poverty or fear...