Word: meat
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...major obsession in this city, haunted by memories of a grim 900-day Nazi blockade in World War II, is how to store food supplies for the coming winter. Rationing was imposed last week on meat products, sausage, butter and cooking oil to provide Leningrad residents with what city officials called a "guaranteed minimum" of scarce staples. In one downtown meat store, a middle-aged woman surveys refrigerator cases, empty of everything but boxes of sugared cranberries. "It's unbelievable!" she exclaims. "People continue to produce things, but there is nothing to buy. It's those democrats on the city...
...FUMBLING CENTER. There is little confidence outside Moscow that the central government can mend the economy. A decision this year to increase the price the state will pay for grain and meat has not led to more production. Farmers, who have no incentive to accumulate more worthless rubles, have even taken land out of cultivation. Agricultural markets have also been disrupted by government schemes that allow producers of some products to make deals directly with buyers. In parts of the Ukraine, peasants waiting for a better price have turned over only 5% of the grain harvest to the state...
REGIONAL SEPARATISM. Calls from republics and regions for greater political sovereignty have caused economic protectionism and strangled supply lines. The balance sheet at Moscow's No. 14 meat-packing plant tells the story. So far this year, the factory has received only 410 tons of meat, well short of the planned 2,920 tons. The Belorussians have sent 120 tons instead of 970. Nothing has come from Kazakhstan, Latvia or Lithuania. During the past nine months, the agricultural regions around Sverdlovsk have held back one-third of their scheduled deliveries of produce and sold the products on local markets...
...poultry: annual per capita consumption of chicken alone has risen from 40 lbs. in 1970 to more than 70 lbs. this year. Unfortunately, mass-production techniques make many poultry farms and plants prime breeding grounds for salmonella. Different strains of the bacteria can contaminate eggs as well as meat. (Raw cow's milk can also be tainted, but beef is less of a problem than poultry because the slaughtering process is cleaner...
...freeze on trade with Iraq and Kuwait is buffeting a lot of people, from U.S. manufacturers of oil-field equipment to Irish meat producers to Italian shipbuilders. If U.N. sanctions produced a cutoff in trade with Iraq, they also led Iraq to suspend payment on outstanding debts. The result is dislocation and even hardship among Iraq's erstwhile commercial partners...