Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time to recognize this swelling chorus as the refrain of a fat and experience racket. When a group in any society makes coercive claims to subsidy upon others, it implicitly assumes an entitlement to the lives and property of other individuals. The claim does not differ in essence from the one slave-holders imposed on slaves in the Old South: the group demands that others live for its sake. Profession of special worth does not justify coercive intervention on behalf of any interest group, no matter how skillfully the group may portray its aims as in the "common interest...
...told his father in Waterford, Conn., "I'd kill those bastards if I ever saw them again." He reported that he had been kept in solitary confinement for five months "in a bamboo cage full of ants and poisonous snakes." His diet, he said, was rice and pork fat, rationed at one bowl a day, plus some water...
...milk producers are paid on the basis of the butterfat content in their cows' milk, which naturally has encouraged dairy farmers to produce, through the breeding and feeding of cattle, ever richer milk. Consumer tastes, of course, have gone precisely the other way -to large quantities of fat-free milk...
Worth. The old stars-Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan-willingly turned the podium over to some fresher faces. Among them: Philadelphia Councilwoman Dr. Ethel Allen ("I'm what's known as Philadelphia's fat Shirley Chisholm"), Colorado's new Democratic U.S. Representative, Pat Schroeder, 32, the mother of two preschoolers, and Baltimore Councilwoman Barbara Mikulski, who made a strong and witty plea that the convention not forget the blue-collar woman...
...case of jitters about the American economy. Domestically, there is fear of a new surge of inflation. Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, predicts that consumer prices, pushed up largely by food costs, may rise at an annual rate of 6% this quarter. Certainly fat increases in retail food costs are in store for the months ahead. Meanwhile, bankers and investors worry about a credit squeeze: Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns disclosed last week that the growth of U.S. money supply had ground to a complete stop in January. Interest rates on bank loans...