Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as the partying proceeded, a 14-man caucus of the committee's natural gas conferees was struggling furiously to come up with a deal. After dining on takeout orders of pizza and fried chicken, the conferees emerged bleary-eyed at 2:30 a.m. from the conference room of the House Administration Committee and gave waiting reporters the news: this time, after many false alarms, a gas solution was really at hand. The key features: 1) the phased decontrol of domestically produced newly discovered natural gas, with the price ceiling rising by about 10% annually and being eliminated altogether...
...show, a rural community, Gilbert, has long tolerated, secretly relished, and certainly patronized a venerable bordello run in a rectitudinous fashion that would be the envy of most private-school headmasters today. Governors, Senators and mayors unwind from the cares of office in the chambers of the Chicken Ranch, as the place is known from a Depression custom in which local farmers traded live fowl for the favors of the girls. Postpubescent lads, like the winning Aggie football team, matriculate to manhood here under expert tutelage. The prevailing tuition fee is $3. "That's back in the days...
...surprising thing is that Finch has managed to keep up his popularity, this being accomplished by numerous "Cliff Finch Appreciation Day" rallies, which usually include the serving of barbecued chicken. One can only guess at where the money for all of this comes, considering Finch's supporters are the poor working people...
...their stubbornness and steadfastness, the miners have been hurt by the lengthy strike. TIME'S Chicago bureau chief, Benjamin Gate, describes conditions in West Frankfort (pop. 9,400): "With most people eating at home, the Country Fried Chicken Shack and the Pancake House close early. By late afternoon, the streets are deserted and the supermarket parking lots empty. Down the side streets, the small, neat clapboard houses are dimly lit, if at all, with porch lights extinguished. Outside of town, along the bleak and muddy roads, stand the idled mines, their gantries tall and silent. The mines are deserted...
...Harrington speaks not only to the mind, but to the soul as well. Interspersing his social analysis with excerpts from a journal written during his recent Third World travels, Harrington manages to breathe life into abstract economic concepts. Unforgettable images emerge--hordes of beggars in India, a Kentucky Fried Chicken stand in the heart of Nairobi...