Word: meat
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...PrimeTime Live," two undercover reporters with hidden cameras applied for jobs and began work at Food Lion supermarkets in North and South Carolina. The footage they produced was aired in 1992 as part of a story accusing the supermarket chain of redating out-of-date beef, bleaching meat to hide its odor and mixing old meat in with new. The day after the PrimeTime Live episode, Food Lion's stock price fell by more than 10 percent...
...used to want to be skinny," Christy says. "But then I found out that guys don't like skinny girls no more. They like some meat on the bones...
...have to pay supermarket chain Food Lion a substantial damage award after all. The decision reverses a verdict that had been seen as a significant erosion of First Amendment rights. At issue was a 1992 "Primetime Live" expos? of unsanitary Food Lion practices such as bleaching old meat to cover its odor and re-dating foods. A North Carolina jury awarded Food Lion $5.5 million (later reduced to $350,000), reasoning that although the allegations were true, the undercover methods used to report the story (lying on job applications to get in the door, shooting covert footage inside the store...
...after a news organization for what was essentially a libel claim," said TIME senior writer Alain Sanders. "And the court said no, you're not damaged because of trespass, you're damaged because of what they reported." Memo to supermarkets: When hiring someone to reprocess tainted meat, check references...
Those seniors who ventured into the Office of Career Services (OCS) 1999 Career Forum last Friday may have experienced a moment of deja vu. Was this not faintly reminiscent of that other mental meat market, the Freshman Activities Fair? True, the screaming upperclassmen with their in-your-face heckling have been replaced by well-dressed, well-heeled members of the "real world" who wait instead for us to come and find them. And there's no question that the handouts are a lot more enticing--free T-shirts and playing cards are certainly a step up from a fistful...