Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current mood, the public seems disposed to favor candidates who promise the least instead of the most, a dramatic switch from the chicken-in-every-pot, two-cars-in-every-garage philosophy of the past. "The public has gotten off the spending binge," says Deloss Walker, a Memphis political consultant who engineered the surprise victory of Businessman Fob James in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Alabama. "People feel they themselves have tightened their belts, but the political leadership...
...offset the increased Social Security taxes. Then it tacked on an array of special-interest freebies. New York Democrat Daniel Moynihan proposed that the New York State Power Authority be allowed to issue tax-exempt bonds. It passed. Russell Long's Senate Finance Committee had moved that chicken coops built by egg producers should qualify for a 10% investment tax credit. It also passed. Taking up the controversial issue of reducing the tax on capital gains, the Senate turned out to be $1.4 billion more generous than the House, voting a $2.5 billion slash-even though Carter had once...
...make a statement about waste in U.S. society, Economist David Osterberg, 35, of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, moved into a chicken coop nearly two years ago. The quarters are small (9 ft. by 12 ft.) but cheap: $40 a month for rent and electricity. Osterberg installed a glass skylight, insulation and not-so-spartan furnishings, including a stereo, color television, refrigerator, telephone, toaster oven and several Persian rugs. Says he: "Living this way makes me feel that at least I'm not part of the problem...
...with regard for flavor, texture and color. Each begins like an opera, with an enticing overture leading ineluctably on toward the major arias. Because they lack space for pasturage, the central Chinese south of the Yellow River do not eat much beef or lamb. Most specialties are based on chicken, duck, pork, bountiful vegetables and a huge variety of fresh-and saltwater fish and shellfish. It is basically a cuisine of survival, in which every last conceivably usable ingredient goes into the pot. How about smoked ducks' tongues? Fish eyes and spiced chicken feet? Wine-braised camel...
They are wrong, of course, but Duryea won't tell them that. In fact, for several months now, the Republican has been quietly taking a man-sized chunk of credit for the last-minute, spit-and-chicken-wire debt refinancing agreement that was the first step out of New York City's fiscal crisis. Duryea has campaigned well: Peddling his wares upstate, he stresses his early opposition to the Big MAC bond agreement, which he says was designed to make sure the city wouldn't get off with easy terms that might have endangered the state's own bonds...