Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie doesn't have its humorous moments. In one scene, Jake helps a police officer get his estranged girlfriend back by composing a song "Oh Marjorie," sung to the tune of "Oh Christmas tree." The sight of the officer bleating out the song in a steak joint as livestock baa in the background is silly (and desperate) enough to be mildly amusing. Still, it's the sort of scene that you know has been done before--a feeling we seem to get often; a class nerd gets shoved into a locker, carollers disperse before an advancing runaway sleigh, the mistletoe...
...meteoric rise--from tending livestock during a period of disgrace in the 1970s to being the country's top economic czar in the '90s--mirrors China's stunning growth over the past two decades, his future looks as turbulent as the economy overall. Insiders say his position is secure for the time being, not least because nobody in his right mind would aspire to take over the economic portfolio now. But if the economy keeps worsening, Zhu's joke about building his own coffin could come back to haunt...
County fairs featuring tractor pulls, livestock shows and country western music. An agriculture report on the afternoon news. Packed town hall meetings to discuss the local high school cheerleading squad. Minor league baseball, frequent pledges of allegiance and lots of singing of the national anthem. Soccer tournaments, Girl Scout cookies, barbecues and Bible study classes...
...prepared him for the life he leads now. His family owned a pork-packing plant in Philadelphia. From the age of eight, he spent summers and holidays working alongside blood-splattered hog dressers as they turned pigs into pork chops. "You see people walking around with huge knives and livestock being cut up," Klayman says. "I guess you have to be brought up in that kind of environment to be able to accept and enjoy the challenge of taking on a force as great as the Clinton Administration." If Clinton's enemies need a happy warrior by their side, Larry...
...concern that wanted to squash a consumer-protection clause would feel inspired to support the campaign of Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. He wasn't opposed to the system; he was opposed to ethanol. He believed that using corn for anything but feeding people or livestock was against the laws of nature...