Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other items are still tight worldwide. The 1973 inflation in wheat, corn and soybeans showed how much havoc heavy export demand can wreak on U.S. prices. In addition, all the ups and downs of controls last year caused cattlemen and hog raisers to limit production sharply. That means that meat prices will stay high or even rise in the months immediately ahead because the number of steers and hogs reaching market will not increase much before midyear. Whether there will be any appreciable drop in prices after that is uncertain. The most optimistic prospect is that food prices...
...America is by far the largest consumer of energy in the world. With only one-sixteenth of the planet's population, we burn up nearly three-quarters of its total energy. We live amid constant waste and abuse of everything natural, from hills ravaged by stripmining to the meat loaf that every child is scolded for leaving on his plate...
CHINA IS A piece of meat," Sun Yat-sen once said. "And the whole world wants to take a bit of it." At the 1973 Chinese Communist Party conference sixty years later, Chou Enlai echoed this statement of the Father of the Republic, but added that those who might seek to nourish themselves on China's wealth will find that the piece of meat has grown tough. This new toughness may well be the greatest change the People's Republic has caused--one Nationalist who visited China last year grudgingly admitted, "For the first time in over a century, Chinese...
...succeed in a tough situation. He must work in a language and culture which is new to him. He must accustom himself to a standard of living which does not include that which he previously took for granted in the United States such as hot, running water or meat. Some volunteers live in inaccessible communities for weeks without contact with other Americans...
...immigrants are contrasted with the haunting wraiths in the background, the remnants of the once-proud owners of the land. Troell's flair for faces shows poignantly in the aged, starving Indian women begging a scrap of meat from a frightened, guilty white woman. A narrator describes the oppression of the local Sioux tribes by the U.S. government as desperate Indians take to the warpath seeking food and redress, sweeping the settlers up in yet another external force they cannot comprehend but only react to. Troell does not look for easy morals--his Indians are brutal, gaunt and dirty beside...