Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City. John Huston has cut the meat out of Leonard Gardner's fictional slice of the life of small-time boxers in Stockton, California. The characters are like the little people of Depression dramas--you see "em and weep, but they're just not complex enough to keep you interested. Huston's attempts at poetry are only intermittently effective. Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges are good. Susan Tyrell is terrible...
...Japanese say their whaling is essential. Whale meat accounts for 10% of Japan's protein diet. The blood and entrails are processed into pet food or fertilizer. The skin and bones end up as oil. Even the football-size testicles of sperm whales are boiled, sliced and served as a delicacy...
...increase for all prices averaged 4.8% at an annual rate, with food accounting for almost two-thirds of the jump. Prices for fresh fruits and vegetables, which are not subject to controls, went up instead of declining as they usually do at this time of year. The index for meat, fish and poultry climbed even more. These prices have now risen 10.1% in the year since President Nixon proclaimed his temporary price freeze. As if things were not bad enough on the food front, the American Bakers Association reported that bread prices might rise 2? to 3? a loaf because...
...them cheap precisely because they had ponderous problems. Hoping both to solve those problems and raise more and more cash, Ling sliced up the major parts of his empire, creating smaller companies. (When he cut Wilson & Co. into separate meatpacking, sporting-goods and drug firms, brokers dubbed them "meat ball, golf ball and goof ball.") The plan was to sell new shares in these companies to the public, as well as to give plenty of options to their officers as an incentive. But, like most conglomerators, Ling was so busy looking for the next bargain that he had little time...
Ollie is hardly the patriarchal Kentucky colonel type. A 60-year-old native of Brooklyn, he looks and sounds more like Archie Bunker's big brother. But his hamburgers are something else: one-third pound of lean meat seasoned with 32 spices and a special sauce. Gleichenhaus, who insults customers and employees with equal abandon, takes his seasoning seriously; he often chastises patrons who unknowingly ask for ketchup or mustard...