Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there are "all these friends I didn't know I had. They're from my home town, my home state, people I meet in the meat market. Yeah, there are a lot of girls, too. They might be impressed with me, but I'm not impressed with them. I guess you could call me a square. I usually don't go out more than three or four times during a road trip. I do okay with women. But most of the time I'd just rather get me a bottle of soda and a paper, watch some...
Loud Genius. Abzug comes by all of her contradictions honestly. The daughter of a Russian immigrant named Emmanuel Savitsky, she rang the cash register in his Live and Let Live meat market on Manhattan's Ninth Avenue as a girl, attended Hunter College and Columbia law school, where she was an editor of the Law Review. Before it was fashionable, she was a strong civil rights advocate who once defended a black man in Mississippi accused of raping a white woman. She was seven months' pregnant then and slept in a Jackson bus station one night sitting upright...
...Idea and $1,000. While he was still at N.Y.U., Sanford singled out the food-service industry as ripe for consolidation. He noted that restaurants, hotels, hospitals and other institutions that serve food often have to buy their supplies from a number of sources-meat from one distributor, fish and seafood from another, produce from still another. Sanford sensed the need for an all-in-one service that would provide a complete line of foods-from goose to mousse. To get a grasp of the gossip and personalities in the industry that he had chosen, he bought three years...
With only his idea and $1,000 as assets, Sanford spent a frustrating six months seeking capital. Finally, in 1968, Wall Street's Allen & Co. and the Value Line Development Capital Corp. anted up $2,350,000, and Sanford founded IPS. With his new bankroll, he bought three meat, grocery and restaurant-equipment companies in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and put them together to serve the Caribbean market. They prospered, and Sanford continued to follow his college plan precisely. He bought other companies in exchange for IPS stock. In all, he acquired 13 companies-in New York...
...problem is that residues of many invisible chemicals remain in the meat, endangering the final consumer, man. Some, like nitrite and nitrate preservatives, can be poisonous under certain conditions. Others, like the artificial hormone diethylstilbestrol, are suspected of causing cancer when consumed in large doses (see MEDICINE). To safeguard the public, the report urges that alt meat inspection be removed from the Agriculture Department and put under a tough new public-health agency...