Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typical May afternoon in the District of Columbia's George Washington University Medical Center: half a dozen suspected heart attacks; a man who was mowing the lawns at Oak Hill cemetery and caught his foot in the mower; another who was cleaning the meat-slicing machine at a restaurant and cut off his fingertip. A 40-year-old man with black hair and gray skin is complaining of sharp stomach pains. He is HIV positive and taking AZT. "That's what someone looks like who's going to die soon," Dr. Michael Bourland explains quietly as he moves on. Doctors...
LITHUANIA. The Council of Ministers slashed milk and meat supplies to the Soviet Union by 10% as a retaliatory move against Moscow's economic sanctions...
...history's most notorious tribes of warriors. Twentieth century Mongolian history has not been much kinder. Economic stagnation, diplomatic isolation and political repression have withered the nation of 2 million since it fell into Moscow's orbit in 1921. The most basic commodities are in scarce supply -- even meat, despite the fact that Mongolia has more than six times as many sheep as people. Half the meat production is exported in exchange for Soviet goods and loans. The exports help repay Mongolia's $5.5 billion foreign debt...
...Brazauskas explained, with only one out of four natural-gas pipelines still in operation, the republic could meet just 16% of its daily needs. That would be enough to keep bakeries, meat-processing plants and other essential factories running but would bring most industries "to their knees." Meanwhile, oil shipments had been completely cut off. Though Lithuanian authorities immediately declared that each car could receive only 8 gal. of gas a month, the supply was not expected to last for more than two weeks. Lithuanians could also expect shortages of rubber for making cables and sneakers, sodium for soap powder...
...make to sustain and improve the quality of life on our planet. Every Day is Earth Day, which bills itself as "the official New England Earth Day 1990 action guide," is chock full of such suggestions. And though some of them--such as using cloth diapers and not eating meat--are of questionable value, the importance of the idea of individual sacrifice cannot be overstated...