Word: meat
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...exceptions to the new truth-in-packaging program remain meat, poultry and egg products, which are regulated by the Department of Agriculture. Restaurant food, prepared dishes sold in supermarkets or delicatessens, infant formula and a few other items, most of them with little or no nutritive value, are likewise exempt...
...Lively and his partner have sold $1 million worth of the semen at $250 a vial, in contrast to $25 for the typical U.S. variety. Ranchers from Canada to New Zealand foresee a bonanza in Wagyu beef because Japan has little room for raising cattle. They expect to boost meat shipments to Japan when the country lifts import quotas on beef next year...
Worse, the chill wind of recession is in the air. Overall European growth will slow as oil prices climb. Paul Horne, the chief international economist for Smith Barney in Paris, points to recent protests in France over cheap meat imports from E.C. partners as signs of a potential "backlash against increased competition, industrial as well as agricultural, that can be expected." Nor will rising oil prices affect all E.C. countries equally. The dislocations triggered by the gulf crisis are bound to test the strength of European cohesion...
This year Governor Stan Stephens hopes to defuse some of the public anger when the shooting resumes. Under his new plan, hunters will be permitted to shoot only straying male bison. Federal park rangers and state game wardens will kill the females, and the meat will be distributed to needy people. Bison calves will be captured and neutered, then sold at public auction. The proceeds will pay for the butchering of their mothers...
...came under suspicion on two occasions. During the period when members of the Comintern, or Communist International, started disappearing into the meat grinder, the Polish representatives were virtually all arrested and shot as enemy agents. I came to Moscow from the Ukraine for a Central Committee meeting. Nikolai Yezhov, chief of the secret police, and I were standing around, and Stalin came over. He shoved his finger into my shoulder and said, "What's your name...