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...meat prices remain high even though distribution techniques have radically improved. Once, all cattle were trucked to feed lots for fattening, sold at stockyards, slaughtered, wholesaled and finally retailed-and each middleman sent the price a bit higher. Today, 110 supermarket chains sell almost 50% of all the meat eaten in the U.S. Some operate their own feed lots and slaughterhouses; the rest buy in bulk at favorable prices. By all the laws of economics and common sense, beef prices should be falling...
...fatalistic companion who has listened to Schwarz talk through the long night in Lisbon, the tale later seems reminiscent of an insect embalmed in a flat piece of amber-"the death struggle of a gnat, preserved in a cage of golden tears, while its fellows had frozen or been eaten, and vanished from the face of the earth...
...about the reasons for this fight but make yourself share in the human stakes." The advice is well-taken, because the reasons for the struggle seem decidedly artificial from the start. Shlink a Chinese timber dealer, purposely provokes a fatal quarrel with George Garga, an employee in a moth-eaten lending library. When Garga refuses to sell his opinion of a book to Shlink and his three thugs, the Chinaman concludes that he is a man of spirit an man worthy of his enmity. Garga takes up the challenge to combat without knowing why: "The fight is on with...
Although the administration will almost surely approve the proposal. President Bunting warned that the new system might cause a rise in board prices because of higher book keeping costs and a possible increase in the number of meals eaten...
...elative d-dazzling, delicious, devastating, divine; and the deflative b-beastly, bloody, boring, the bottom." A simple "oh" has two compressed syllables that come out like "eau." She coins her own anthropological aphorisms: at the English dinner party, "people come not so much to eat as to be eaten...