Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence continued, the mullahs had other problems on their hands. The economy is a disaster. Inflation is running at 60% for consumer goods. Lamb now costs four times what it did under the Shah; a cake of soap sells for $2. Nearly one-third of the nation's labor force of 12 million is unemployed. Some 1.5 million refugees from Afghanistan have crowded into the country, further straining the economy. More than a million educated Iranians have fled since the Islamic revolution. Though Iran's annual income from oil exports is about $11.5 billion, the war with Iraq...
...deadlock was immediately obvious when the 13 ministers sat down Sunday evening in a private hotel dining salon for a secret preconference dinner. While the delegates ate lobster mousse and lamb noisettes, Yamani bluntly laid out the Saudi terms. The stonewalling response by cartel hard-liners led Conference Chairman Subroto of Indonesia to confess later that little remained except to "get through two days of meetings...
...called M-44, involves a spring-loaded tube covered with bait and planted in the ground. When a coyote begins tugging at the bait, the device fires a lethal dose of cyanide into its mouth. In an attempt at aversion therapy, Government-funded scientists have even scattered chunks of lamb meat dosed with an emetic. Any coyote who samples the stuff quickly becomes ill. The object: to make coyotes feel that sheep are sickening. All these things have proved too inefficient or too costly to be much help. Is there, then, any safe, cheap and humane way of containing coyotes...
...rique is now fairly bursting with the ingredients for le grand repas. Lobsters from the state of Maine (named for the region in northwest France), milk-fed veal from le Midwest, good beef and lamb from Montana and New Jersey, le bon canard known as Long Island duckling, the little shrimp of New Orleans, the crab of San Francisco, an aspiring caviar, even snails, frogs' legs and truffles from la Californie. Speaking of la Californie, G-M advise you to drink its wines by all means. The Californians, led-cela va sans dire-by French and Italian growers, have...
...economy," said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan last week. Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, downplayed the economy's strong performance in the first two months of the year by noting that "March came in like a lion and is leaving like a lamb." The President's new independent Economic Policy Advisory Board, which includes former Treasury Secretaries George Shultz and William Simon and former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, was equally downbeat at its first meeting with Reagan last week...