Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deep down underneath a maze of statistical formulas designed to compensate for assorted variables such as sex, age, race, geographic location and family status, the definition of poverty rests on one bedrock invariable: people must eat...
...statisticians decided to establish the poverty line for individuals and families simply by multiplying what it cost them to eat for a year by three. Why three? Because a 1955 survey of food spending habits showed that the average U.S. family spent about $1 of every $3 of income on food. Over the years, various refinements have been made in the system, most notably a linking of the poverty figures to all of the components in the Consumer Price Index, including fuel and clothing as well as food. Distinctions are also made for price differences in various parts...
...union dining hall open during the walkout; students sympathetic to the strike but unable to afford weeks of off-campus meals, were forced to cross picket lines. During a similar strike at the University of Pennsylvania last year, the university closed its dining halls and paid students to eat off-campus until the strike was settled...
...boots-and-jeans style was especially appreciated. "At first I despised it," he confesses, "havin' to go up to people and try to talk to them. Now they come up to me." When he is asked what he does on the hustings, Jeff replies: "I give speeches.I eat cookies. I cut ribbons...
...funny thing about heart specialists," says McGandy, a cardiology specialist himself. "They go to these heart association meetings, where the menus are covered with all of the obscene fried foods full of saturated fats and cholesterol. They sit and eat and talk about heart disease...