Word: cowed
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...Fast-food giants such as McDonald's procure beef from all over, but Yoshinoya imports almost 100% of its meat from cheap U.S. producers. When Japan banned imports of American beef in late December because of mad-cow disease, Yoshinoya chief executive Shuji Abe called it "the worst of worst-case scenarios" and then announced the unthinkable: Yoshinoya's 980 Japanese outlets would run out of beef by mid-February. Gyudon aficionados rushed the counters, and sales jumped 10% from the previous month. Now the company concedes it might buy domestic or Australian beef, even though its prices would rise...
...fact that some of these early experiments could take place with existing technology on future rovers is one reason mission advocates question Bush's long time frame for his Mars flights. "Johnson Space Center was a cow pasture when we started the lunar program," says Humboldt Mandell, a planetary scientist at the University of Texas who managed the last Mars initiative, "and still we got to the moon in seven years from a cold start...
...from their sale. All his royalty payments went into a trust fund managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). If Bruno needed to buy something, he had to appeal to the local BIA agent, and he was rarely given cash. When he wanted to buy a cow, the price was deducted from his account and given directly to the seller. When he bought groceries, he paid for them with a BIA voucher...
FOOD FRIGHT Mad-cow disease threatens the U.S. Can Big Beef beat...
...biggest beneficiary of the U.S.'s meat crisis may well be Australia, the largest exporter never known to suffer a case of mad cow. It is probably no coincidence that most of its cattle are fed on grass, not feed concocted from animal parts, which has been banned in several countries--including the U.S.--after being suspected of spreading mad cow. But falling prices in the U.S. could hurt Australian beef, which Americans import for its leaner content. In other words, it is all a mad-cow mess, and no one quite knows where it is going. "This happens...