Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rushed off to Austria by way of the American embassy in Tel Aviv. It reached Schloss Klessheim, the U.S. quarters for the two-day Salzburg meeting, as Ford was hosting a luncheon there for Sadat that ranged from trout à la meunière and spinach en branches to butter pecan ice cream ring with chocolate sauce. Both Presidents expressed immediate pleasure at the news...
...most striking aspects of the debate is that the broader, historic issues have been so little discussed. In a recent letter to his constituents, Tory Maudling urged voters not to "rest the future of England upon this week's price of grain in Chicago, or butter in New Zealand. There are greater and more lasting issues at stake." Maudling's advice notwithstanding, it may well turn out that Wilson's deliberately low-keyed and uninspiring approach was the one best suited to produce a historic, positive result...
...instinct and tradition, U.S. labor unions have been content to leave the actual running of companies to management, preferring to stress the bread-and-butter issues of wages, hours and working conditions. But in Europe, worker participation in management decision making is an established idea that keeps spreading continually into more countries and industries. The practice, known in German as Mitbestimmung (literally, having a voice in), took root shortly after World War II in West Germany, where coal miners and steel workers began sitting alongside bosses on industry supervisory boards. In recent years, the notion of giving workers a greater...
...Shirley. We've got some real bad characters around here." All the president's visitors have their pictures taken by the White House photographers, and Ford makes sure that they all get copies. The president's usual lunch, we learn, is cottage cheese drenched in A-1 sauce, with butter pecan ice cream on the side...
...farmers cash subsidies if the price falls below the "target" level), and allow the Government to make larger loans to growers. It would also raise grocery bills. According to Agriculture Department economists, the addition to retail food prices this year would cost the consumer several hundred million dollars; milk, butter and cheese would all be higher...