Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebellion failed to dislodge him from the Kremlin. Back then, conditions in the city were improving after decades of shortages, but residents still remembered taking the four-hour "sausage train" to Moscow simply to purchase basic foodstuffs, and the old Soviet-era joke was retold regularly: "Do you have meat here?" a customer asks. "No," says the shopkeeper. "Here we don't have fish; it's at the other store that they don't have meat." Yeltsin was nevertheless the triumphant victor over revanchism, and in Yaroslavl that day he was hailed joyously...
...vomited five or six times...but it gave me great satisfaction not to give in." On another occasion the mother, provoked beyond reason during a fast-food jaunt, locked her son in the car trunk. When she opened it again, he cheerily placed his order for "a cheeseburger without meat, French fries and a Coke...
...Carnivores, consider this: women ages 55 to 69 who eat more than 36 servings of RED MEAT a month appear to have a 70% greater risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma than those who consume less than 22 servings...
...Make mine rare! People who chow down on meat that's cooked medium to well done appear more likely to develop STOMACH CANCER than those who favor rarer flesh. Reason: carcinogenic chemicals can form when animal protein is heated to high temperatures for long periods of time...
...Communists are promising a return to the future. But the Soviet record at the beginning of the long Brezhnev era might be enough to give voters pause: "Soviet leaders are now facing their most alarming internal failure in years: a serious sag in the economy...In the Russian Republic...meat will be underproduced by 40% in 1970, eggs by 44%. Other drastic shortages will be in passenger cars, furniture, building materials and synthetic fabrics...[T]o order a pair of pants from a Soviet tailor shop...[n]o fewer than four magazine-size blanks must be filled...