Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...informal leader of the council and a close advisor to City Manager James J. Curry '19, until Curry was fired by the council in January 1966. The anti-Curry move touched off the series of coups and counter-coups centering around the managership which have been the meat of Cambridge politics since then...
...India has only 2,500 tigers left. The country's mere 175 lions fare even worse. For one thing, huge numbers of cattle have denuded vegetation, thus driving away the deer upon which the lions feed. For another, some Hindu untouchables have no scruples about eating meat and regularly chase the lions away from kills to appropriate the meat for themselves. Also vanishing: India's blackbuck antelope, sloth bear and snow leopard...
...union practices, fair-trade laws, and indefensible subsidies to farmers, shipping men and others. All such rigidities help to drive up prices. Quotas on steel and oil imports keep out low-priced foreign materials. An act passed by Congress in 1964 orders the President to impose a quota on meat imports if they seem likely to rise 10% or more above the 1959-1963 yearly average. In order to avoid triggering the quota, foreign suppliers are refraining from shipping in as much meat as they could. That restriction on the supply of one of the most important items that...
...When they drop the puck to start the game," says one rival manager, "the Bruins think it is a piece of raw meat." Known to their foes as "the Animals," the Boston Bruins have long been the toughest, roughest, meanest, most penalized team in the National Hockey League. Unfortunately, they usually won more fights than games; in the past eleven seasons, the Bruins failed to make the Stanley Cup play-offs eight times, and their last cup victory was in 1941. "Some people say they've been rebuilding since then," says Scotty Bowman, coach of the St. Louis Blues...
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. linguistics professor, and two union leaders-the president of the United Electrical Workers Local 205 and the International representative of the Amalgamated Meat-cutters-also spoke at the rally and expressed solidarity with striking students...