Word: ib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ib. weight class, RoAnn Costin continued the Lowell House protest against intramural boxing and forfeited to Winthrop's Mike Bernick. Bernick tried to arrange an exhibition match with an ex-girlfriend's boyfriend, but the substitute contest fell through...
...fryers are really moving out." A Los Angeles shopper, Jane Burnham, pledged: "I'll boycott until I grow feathers from eating so much chicken." Others seemed to be willing to sprout scales. Fish sales rose sharply, driving up the price of filet of sole to $2.90 a Ib. in many places, exceeding the cost of porterhouse steak...
...boycott had made its mark. Prices, which held steady early in the week, began to slip in some places, though it is still too soon to tell if the housewives will ultimately succeed. In Chicago, wholesale beef and hog prices dropped a few cents per Ib.; Grand Union Co., the tenth-largest food chain in the U.S., cut the price of beef, pork, lamb and veal by 100 per Ib., and a few other chains also made reductions. Some 200 leaders of the New Majority -housewives, labor-union officials and consumer-group representatives-prepared to go to Washington this week...
...about 6% during the freeze, but raw food prices have been uncontrolled and are rising rapidly. Because 47% of Britain's farm produce is imported, the government is limited in how much it can control. Since the freeze began, a rump of beef has jumped from $1.63 per Ib. to about $2.18. The price of imported wheat has more than doubled in the past year. On top of this, the country's trade deficit is the biggest since World War II. Sterling has dropped a full 10% in value since it started floating last June; the pound...
Shoppers pick up soup meat for $ 1 per Ib. and examine jars of jam that cost $1.15. They drink their coffee watered-down-because it costs $2 per Ib.-and pass up steaks that run $3 to $4 per Ib. for an indifferent cut. Even the rich, dark German bread in Limburg goes for an average of 60? a loaf. I asked one supermarket customer how he would vote on Nov. 19. "I am not yet sure," he replied. "I won't tell you what party I belong to, but I will say that I'm not sure...