Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason why people should starve. Enough food to feed the nation is almost certainly being produced; two age old social constraints, however, prevent it from getting into hungry mouths. The first is the income distribution. Rich people always use more food than they have to, especially in places where fat is a status symbol. Every pound of meat an American peace corpsman or Bengali professor buys takes seven pounds of grain off the market. This, of course, pushes the poorest of the poor below subsistence, towards death. With an equal income distribution, Bangladesh's food needs could be thirty...
Donald C. Howard, associate dean of students at Southeastern Massachusetts University and an observer at the rally, said that proposed budget cuts will "destroy some of the most significant and effective programs," at a time when "there is a lot of fat in the state budget." Howard predicted the cuts would hurt minorities and disadvantaged students more than others...
...researchers also came up with an array of James Bond weaponry that could use the shellfish toxin and other poisons as ammunition. To illustrate his testimony, Colby handed a pistol to Committee Chairman Frank Church. Resembling a Colt .45 equipped with a fat telescopic sight, the gun fires a toxin-tipped dart, almost silently and accurately up to 250 ft. Moreover, the dart is so tiny-the width of a human hair and a quarter of an inch long-as to be almost indetectable, and the poison leaves no trace in a victim's body...
...Athletic Department has tried to cut most of the fat from its other programs. But, trimmed or not, football, soccer, crew, fencing, every other varsity sport will...
...company would then secure FHA insurance for the mortgage on the house, typically based on an unrealistically high appraisal that inattentive FHA officials did not question. After the financially strapped tenant let the house fall apart and moved out, the mortgage company would foreclose. It would then collect a fat check from the agency in repayment of the defaulted loan, leaving the FHA stuck with a house that could be resold only at a heavy loss...