Word: butchering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acting as if he did not have a care in the world, Ronald Reagan might have been just another wealthy, leisured Californian doing his routine chores last week. He visited his tailor, barber and butcher, where he picked up two shopping bags of veal and beef from his private meat locker in the town of Thousand Oaks. To some 50 people who turned out to greet him, he remarked: "You mean to tell me a farmer doing his work is of this much interest...
...furnishes employees with a hearty breakfast each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket. Half an hour alone is wasted waiting in line for the obligatory shopping basket she must use for purchases. Always poorly stocked, the supermarket...
...California. Supporters of the cut argued that the house is unnecessarily cumbersome and costly; opponents, who predictably included legislators, labor leaders and lobbyists, said that cutting back representation would eliminate some of the best lawmakers and minority party representatives. Noted one opponent: "This is surgery with a butcher knife...
...casualness of turtleneck jersey and chino pants, his butcher-boy haircut tousled by the wind, Sagan sends out an exuberant message: science is not only vital for humanity's future wellbeing, but it is rousing good fun as well. Even the most scientifically untutored person can?indeed, must?grasp its essentials. As Sagan insists, "There is nothing about science that cannot be explained to the layman...
...banks argue that instead of blocking foreign investment, Congress should remove the regulatory shackles from American moneymen. In particular, they want changes in laws that prohibit U.S. banks from operating in more than one state, so that they too could buy American financial institutions. Says Chase Manhattan President Willard Butcher: "I would at least have liked the chance to bid on Crocker Bank." Thousands of small American banks, though, are expected to continue lobbying hard against any legislation that would permit large domestic banks to enter their markets. They are no more eager to be swallowed by Chase than...