Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exotic. One crowd pleaser was Vladimir Kabaidze, 64, general director of a machine-tool plant in the city of Ivanovo. Earthy and outspoken, Kabaidze took pleasure in skewering the ministerial bureaucracy that oversees Soviet industrial enterprises. Kabaidze offered some feline advice: "If a minister can catch mice, feed him. If he can't, don't bother." He also denounced the bloated cadre of "scientific workers" who are designated to carry out state-supported research-and- development projects but actually perform little productive labor. "I recently heard a horrible statistic," he told the conference. "There are supposed...
...like the salesman who banged on the door last month and said, 'I know you didn't buy anything last month, but I'd like to help you out this month.' He wears well on you. Pretty soon he's a member of the family." Jim Young of Ochoco Feed and Farm Supply agrees. "Dukakis has got more for the workingman than Reagan, and Bush is just another Reagan," says Young. "We're ready for a change...
Those who oppose Dukakis generally do so because they feel he is too liberal. "I like somebody with a more blood-and-guts stand against crime and drugs," says a man at the Ochoco feed store. Eating pancakes at Barr's Cafe, Bob Clevenger, 67, a retired minister, says his main problem with Dukakis is credibility. "I don't like Bush, but I won't vote for Dukakis because he's not shooting honest. He's making claims for things in Massachusetts he didn...
...cleaners, car-repair garages, restaurants, hotels, box offices and Aeroflot counters, repair shops for TVs, refrigerators and sewing machines -- stepping on our pride, moving from wheedling to arguing and back to wheedling. We spend all our time trying to get something. It's humiliating that we still can't feed ourselves, having to buy bread and butter and meat and fruit and vegetables abroad...
...some tomatoes over there, or perhaps a row of asters. People planting their first plots tend to be too practical, determined to labor over beans and carrots that the local supermarket provides just as well and far more cheaply (exceptions: peas and raspberries). It is undeniably fun to feed oneself from one's harvest, but remember that gardening is not supposed to be practical. If, on the other hand, you yearn to grow carrots (which do grow like weeds), then plant carrots. Plant whatever tastes good, whatever pleases you. Plant lawn grass. Plant garlic. Plant fig trees...