Word: butter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total number of dairy cows has gone steadily up since 1979 and milk output has swollen accordingly, the Government's generosity makes it profitable for farmers to produce still more. One unhappy result: the Government is holding almost 17 billion lbs. of surplus "milk equivalent"-mounds of milk, butter and cheese-in warehouses and caves around the country under a price-support program that cost taxpayers $2.5 billion in fiscal...
...Greg Gizzi and Coach Restic decided on a bread-and-butter play during the timeout. I know we had to get just past midfield to get in range for Jim Villenueva...
...likely to enthusiastically support the placement of nuclear weapons in space," he urged the assembled scientists to start thinking instead about ways to get their share of the huge research-and-development money involved in putting laser beams in space. In Los Alamos, weapons are bread and butter...
Formidably acute and full of zest for life, she found no event too humble for her observation: haymaking, a ramble in the woods, the delight of fresh Breton butter. At the same time she produced brilliant set pieces of aristocratic life: Fouquet's trial and imprisonment on dubious evidence; the suicide of the maitre d'hotel when fish ordered for the King's banquet failed to arrive; the execution of a marquise for mass murder...
...facto leader of his party's conservative wing. Jackson felt that his onetime comrades had turned too easy on Communism, or in some cases too hard on social programs, while he remained the archetypal cold war liberal, determined that the U.S. spend generously on guns and butter. "I don't worry about ideologies," he said. "I've been called a Communist, a socialist, a conservative." In 1972 and 1976, he was a credible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination...