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Radical as that scenario may seem, it was only after World War II that the U.S. began confining cattle in factory farms that can fatten 50,000 head a year on high-calorie grain. Until then, cattle grazed on grass their full lives--as they still mostly do in Europe, South America, New Zealand and other beef-producing nations. The new U.S. system grew thanks to vast surpluses of government-subsidized corn and soybeans, produced with modern petroleum-based fertilizers. Traditionally, steers had taken three to four years to fatten on pasture. Today they grow to slaughter size in less...
...mission and financial stability.This time, as students want Harvard to sever ties with companies that do business with the Sudanese government, Bok’s views could assume new importance.“We can all agree that an educational institution should not inflict harm on others merely to fatten its coffers,” Bok later wrote in a 1982 book on the social responsibilities of universities. “But it is a very different matter for trustees to use institutional funds to help redress an injustice in the outside world for which the university is not directly...
While their aides fidgeted outside, Reagan and Gorbachev were educating each other on their divergent world views. Gorbachev charged that America was run by a military-industrial complex that tries to fatten defense spending by inducing U.S. paranoia about the Soviet Union. He told Reagan that the President was in the thrall of a cabal of archconservatives. He claimed that American think tanks, citing the Heritage Foundation in Washington and the Hoover Institution in California, were feeding Reagan plans "designed to break down the Soviet economy." Reagan replied with astonishment to Gorbachev's conspiracy theories. Indeed, he said...
Ultrasensitive messages, like those used by the White House Secret Service detail, are scrambled and cannot be decoded without sophisticated equipment. But unscrambled transmissions from most agencies are vulnerable to eavesdroppers using commercially available radio scanners. DeConcini wants Congress to fatten the budget for secure communications. The Government was reminded of the embarrassing problem of intercepted radio messages during the Achille Lauro episode in October, when ham-radio operators heard Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger advising the President over an unsecured channel. NEW JERSEY A Corrupt Pol Surfaces...
...Under Bush, outsourcing should continue to fatten American corporate profits, but it also threatens to leach millions of jobs away from the U.S. service sector. The challenge for Bush is to ensure that American workers receive the higher education and vocational training they need, so that it's still worth paying them a premium. If he fails to do so, Asia will benefit...