Word: feed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city being constructed in the remote jungle around the tribal village of the country's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. An artificial lake has been dug beside the walls of the leader's imposing palace, and crocodiles have been introduced; every afternoon, presidential assistants feed these creatures raw meat and a live chicken. Why? Naipaul wonders over and over again. His informants cannot enlighten him. But he seems to learn something from them all the same. Black Africa does not operate according to rules that will submit to logic. Naipaul is appalled by the dirt...
...many students, because it started during lunch hours, the blackout meant fumbling with the salad bar. However, Benjamin Walcott, assistant director of food services, said, "We were able to limp through. Fortunately it was a soup and sandwich day." Walcott added, "We were able to feed everybody"--but they were unable to serve any more fried cauliflower once the outage began...
...only 35% of blacks said they were "very patriotic," compared with 56% of whites. In Fairmont, W. Va., Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton's home town, people are brimming with pride, of course. Yet unemployment is running at 10%, and as Mayor Gregory Hinton says, "Patriotism does not feed the family...
...Kenneth Senger, the state epidemiologist in South Dakota, reported that there had been four cases of infection with antibiotic-resistant S. newport in the state in three months. Interviews established that the victims lived on farms six miles apart and that they got their beef from the same nearby feed lot, which routinely added chlortetracycline to the animals' feed. The CDC traced the path of the meat shipments from the feed lot to eight supermarkets patronized by the ten Minnesota victims. All had reported eating hamburgers within a week of the time they became...
...report has added new intensity to the debate about antibiotic additives in livestock feed. Since 1977 the Food and Drug Administration has been proposing a ban on the addition to feed of penicillin and tetracycline, two antibiotics widely used to combat human disease. Farmers would be free to substitute antibiotics not commonly used by people. Great Britain limited the addition of some drugs to livestock feed in 1971, and other European Community countries followed in 1973. But heavy lobbying by livestock breeders and pharmaceutical companies, which supplied antibiotics worth $270.9 million to the feed industry in 1983, has blocked...