Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of other measures. Among them: holding pay raises of 1.4 million federal employees and 2 million military personnel to only 5%, rather than the 6% planned in Carter's fiscal 1979 budget; having Carter urge state and local governments to cut sales and property taxes; increasing meat imports to hold back rising prices of food; calling a meeting of top executives of the 50 or so largest U.S. companies at which they would be asked to accept a one-year freeze on their own salaries, which would give them moral authority to ask for restraint by workers...
...Mediterranean McDonald's makes the world-famous Gyron sandwich. It's grilled lamb wrapped in pita bread and packed with lettuce, tomatoes and onions, sprinkled with paprika and the mysterious special sauce that adds a kick to the dish. It looks like an ice cream cone with meat on top the way they wrap it up, and it's a sure fire delight...
...place of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they offer their own-a gospel no more appealing to one searching for truth than moldy bread or rotten meat is to one looking for food...
Since 1975, the nation's herd has shrunk from 132 million to 116 million head, a seven-year low. Cattlemen are now holding their breeders back from markets to rebuild their stock. As a result, beef is becoming scarcer, and this summer the price of hamburger-quality meat is expected to go up by 15% to 20%. Steak cuts may climb...
...under the surface of Lady Be Good? Let us ponder. We find, alas, no intelligent treatment of sensitive issues, no probing of our souls' seamy undersides. At bottom, this show is clean. Unbesmirched by ambiguity, wiped of Weltshmerz, it comes to us like a babe, puerile and kicking. No meat for melodic meditation, no erudite arias, no recondite repartee a la intelligencia. In a word--a four-letter word--the book of Lady Be Good is gosh-darn dumb. But like the song says: the production has "got a rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm" that could make "you all aquiver...