Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual "flower fund" was required charity for all Powell appointees, and with 2,000 patronage jobs at his disposal during his five-year term as secretary of state, he was able to enforce his oft-stated fondness for doling out jobs and commanding loyalty. "I can smell the meat acookin'," Powell said whenever the subject of state jobs was raised. He also had a certain charm, summed up by a boyhood friend: "Paul was just a big old country boy-he could shake you down and make you like...
...build Utopia. If Marshall McLuhan is to be believed, just by sitting around and watching television, people participate in a tribalism of feelings that is making the whole world one. One what? Vegetable? Well, vegetables are much on the minds of Utopians these days. Many of them have rejected meat and its association with the hunt and the kill. Everything that is disagreeable is permanently banned from today's Utopia. If you follow your inner light, you cannot possibly go astray...
...children. He says today that consumers no longer know what they eat. "In 1949 ninety per cent of the food sold was for the housewife. Now only fifty per cent is, and at least half of that is highly-processed with all sorts of additives-vegetable protein substitutes for meat and excessive salt to mask the taste of excessive sugar and on and on." Mayer wants calories, proteins, and minerals to appear by amount on all processed food labels. He would like to see date limiting and unit pricing by manufacturers...
...Meat and Potatoes
...Andrew J. Gleason, professor of Mathematics and chairman of the Docket Committee, then offered up the meat and potatoes of the meeting, which was a report by the Faculty Council Subcommittee on Election Procedures, proposing new methods for electing students to five other-Faculty committees...