Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approximately six months after students voted for meatless alternatives at all meals, there has apparently been no decrease in the quantity of meat they...
...debated radical reductions in spending even to the point of cutting all salaries by as much as 25%. They weighed asking the city's 14,000 suppliers to accept 800 on the dollar for unpaid bills. Among them: $7.5 million for electricity in October and $604,000 for meat served at the city's prisons, hospitals and other institutions. The officials even opened negotiations with trustees of the five city employee pension funds to use their $8.5 billion in assets as collateral for $4 billion in loans to the city. The plan was tentatively and reluctantly approved...
...that is, they belonged to the genus Homo (or true man), rather than to man-apes (like Australopithecus, who once was thought to be the forerunner of man but is now regarded as a possible evolutionary dead end). One clue was the teeth, which showed that the creatures were meat eaters. By the time she finished her collecting last summer, she had discovered bones from no fewer than eight adults and three children. "But we did not appreciate their significance until just last month," Leakey told a press conference in Washington last week. That was when University of California scientists...
...fleet new, longer-range jets like the Boeing 7475P, which can serve those markets nonstop. Yet it may have trouble obtaining massive long-term financing for any new equipment until, as Seawell puts it, "we return to a sustained level of profitability and get some meat on our bones." One way Pan Am might accomplish that is by merging with another carrier and acquiring domestic routes, but it has unsuccessfully explored mergers with TWA, Eastern and American. For the time being, at least, it seems clear that Pan Am will have to continue the battle for sustained profitability...
Slimmer Waistlines. The trend has Government encouragement-indeed prodding. Nancy Harvey Steorts, special assistant for consumer affairs to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, advanced the idea a year ago in a speech to the National Association of Meat Purveyors and shortly after persuaded the Camelback Inn to test the plan. Since then she has traveled round the country evangelizing smaller portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people...