Word: hogging
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...STATEMENT] "I lived on a farm...[My father] taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a hose...
...other noteworthy performance is Jon Voight as the vicious glory hog of a coach. His convincing tantrums and abusive treatment of his players stir up the necessary antipathy from the audience so that when he's ousted in the end, everyone is ready to cheer his demise...
...prosciutto. "The E.U. has closed off much of its market to us," reasoned Nick Giordano, a lawyer at the National Pork Producers Council. "We're looking for reciprocity, and one way to get it is nicking them on bananas." The council got pork added to the hit list. The hog farmers pushed to nail Dutch and Danish ham producers. But because those two countries had opposed the E.U.'s banana restrictions, the USTR said...
...worried about, is one of those vaguely irritating phrases that sink to the bottom of public discourse and stay there like sludge. The mind's response, after the 20th hearing, is a weary "Yeah, yeah." Got to get the kids off to school. Got to invest in a hog factory, build on a floodplain, send bigger boats after fewer fish. Write a check to Greenpeace. Buy Exxon Mobil. And be sure to pick up some bottled water...
...agriculture, in which purely physical characteristics like milk production in a cow or low fat in a hog have real market value, biological carbon copies could become routine within a few years. This past year scientists have done for mice and cows what Ian Wilmut did for Dolly, and other creatures are bound to join the cloned menagerie in the coming year...