Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dearer for Two. Some increases seem clearly illegal. Retail prices of seven cuts of meat that are subject to controls have risen substantially in New York City, according to a state-government survey. For instance, porterhouse steak climbed from a pre-freeze high of $1.99 a pound to $2.09. Last week freeze-enforcing Internal Revenue Service agents found only negligible meat violations; possibly shopkeepers had been alerted by the well-publicized study. Another study disclosed even larger jumps in some fish prices. Halibut steak soared 25%, to $1.49 a pound...
...sees it, most newspapers are merely '"reactive," reporting news when institutions release it. The function of a weekly, he says, is "to find out and explain how local institutions work, and what the people who run them are like. And that can involve anything from how to buy meat at Haymarket to explanations about how government surveillance operates." In three recent issues, Phoenix published a long, comprehensive report on real estate profiteering and the resulting urban problems in Cambridge. As Phoenix sees it, the villains are Harvard University, M.I.T. and the city's chief tax assessor, among others...
...have introduced a resolution for the AFL-CIO convention opening Nov. 18, to take whatever action is necessary, including a national work stoppage or general strike," the executive board of the 500,000 member Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union said...
...technological animals. They chew leaves to make sponges, which they use to sop water out of hollow branches. They also strip grass stems to make long probes, which they use to fish tasty termites out of their mounds. Jane also found out that chimps, long considered vegetarians, also eat meat. Like primitive humans, they form hunting parties and carry out fairly intricate plans to capture young bush pigs, monkeys, baboons-and even, she reports, human babies...
...otherwise, breathes there a man with soul so dead that he did not once thrill to the gut-wrenching twists and turns of the Caterpillar and the Black Widow? Or pit his adolescent's rolled-steel stomach against the depredations of Corny Dogs and Bar-B-Q mystery meat burgers and loomfuls of pink cotton candy? Even those barbaric relics of carnival days, the sideshow freaks, are still present. Hear the saw-throated barker cry of the Headless Body Beautiful: "Yessir, folks, step right up and see Lola, the living, decapitated victim of a hideous automobile accident!" There...