Word: cooks
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...anger at what they feel is a constantly lurking threat. Moreover, prosecutors in some states are winning a lot more cases, in part because they are concentrating their efforts on the career criminals responsible for a disproportionate share of street crime. Between 1972 and 1979 in Chicago's Cook County, felony convictions increased 470%. Many trial judges, roused by fierce, if glancingly focused public rage, have been imposing longer sentences. In New Jersey, the average prison sentence is 40% longer than that given four years ago, and the number of sentences increased in just one year from less than...
Although Falklanders, as before, leave their doors unlocked at night, the islands experienced two murders last year, their first since a celebrated case in 1900 when a black cook successfully turned a seal-hunting rifle on two white tormentors...
...been an exception in many areas. In the early 1960s the company revolutionized the beef-packing industry with a new process for handling meat known as boxed beef. Cuts of everything from sirloin to stew meat were prepared right at the packinghouse plant and then shipped frozen, ready to cook, to retailers. Previously, all beef packers had shipped whole carcasses out to butchers, who cut the meat down to retail-size portions...
...take a while. Down in the juke joints, the boys are listening to Merle Haggard sing a tune called Are the Good Times Really Over, a litany of wistful memories from "back when the country was strong." The song yearns for a time "when a girl could still cook and still would." Those boys may not be able to get a hot meal on the table themselves, but they won't abandon without a fight their inalienable right to have it rustled up by the little woman...
...fever can strike anyone, anywhere. Betty Talmadge, ex-wife of Georgia's former Senator Herman Talmadge-and author of an excellent cookbook, How to Cook a Pig-has been acquiring porcine memorabilia for seven years. Chicago's Charles Braverman, a commodities trader in pork bellies, owns, among other items, a $2,000 brass pig dinner bell, a $2,400 pig ashtray and a 100-lb. lead pig, which adorns the front of his house. David Mercer, 36, a former lawyer who started Boston's Hog Wild! in 1978, mails the Hogalog catalogue advertising his "Pork Avenue Collection...