Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confessed to a nagging worry about food prices-and with good reason. The Agriculture Department last week reported that farm prices jumped 5% in January, the second straight monthly rise of 5%. The Administration has responded by taking steps to raise meat output: it ordered another 9,000,000 acres of land restored to production of feed grains. The move will not affect prices until late summer or fall...
Just after midnight, a small gray van pulled up at a downtown Santiago bar. Within moments, anxious Chileans were swarming around it and buying low-grade black market meat at twice the officially pegged price-despite the fact that national police headquarters was just 2½ blocks away. Day and night, long lines stretch in front of shops as people wait and hope for the chance to buy a pack of cigarettes, a bag of sugar, some powdered milk or cooking...
...teacher), hardly seemed to fit the profile of a maniacal killer. Neighbors, acquaintances and teachers from his home town of Emporia, Kans., sketched a portrait of a congenial and well-liked youth. His parents, neighbors reported, were "upstanding Christian people." Jimmy's father was the foreman at a meat-packing plant, and his mother, who holds a master's degree in education, worked at the local Head Start program...
...America. He has extensive holdings in, among other things, cotton, coffee, shipping, fishing, Nicaragua's Lanica airlines and neighboring Costa Rica, where he is the largest foreign landowner. He is a regular contributor to American political campaigns; this year his cattle ranches will export 25 million lbs. of meat to the U.S. Before the quake hit, Tachito was hoping to spend the next two years or so on his country's political sidelines. Because Nicaragua's constitution bars him from immediately succeeding himself to a second five-year term as President, So moza last spring relinquished power...
...This year's labor-bargaining calendar is crowded with potential trouble. Some 4,700,000 workers are covered by major contracts that are up for renewal, v. only 2,800,000 last year, and they include such powerful and trend-setting groups as the auto workers, electrical workers, meat packers and Teamsters. The auto unionists are pressing for changes in work rules to alleviate the tedium of the assembly line; the main factor mitigating chances of a strike is that the United Auto Workers' war chest is down to $45 million, compared with $120 million when the unionists...