Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willing to pay. For one thing, the union and the church would have to be given access to classified economic data in order to win the cooperation of a skeptical public. Explained one Solidarity official: "If we are to assure the people that there really is a shortage of meat, then we must be able to say that we have checked it ourselves." Solidarity has also been insisting on a direct role in the decision-making process, something the party has consistently refused to consider. Indeed, the union's own plan for labor-government cooperation, a social-economic council...
...have a 10% rate of real growth this year. That is still a high figure by most standards (the predicted U.S. rate for 1981: less than 1%), but one that conceals growing problems such as a scarcity of gasoline and diesel fuel and spot shortages of butter, cheese and meat. An inflation rate of 20% has more than wiped out gains in wages. Foreign investors, skittish about recent government takeovers of the Zimbabwe Banking Corp., the country's most prominent chain of newspapers and Caps holdings, a pharmaceutical company, have shied away from financing new projects. Exports of important...
...nitrites, saccharin, sodium and caffeine. Shoppers pause, read package labels, searching for poisons real or suspected. Amid the latest warnings about salt, sugar, too much protein and assorted baneful additives, one current bestseller, Jane Brody's Nutrition Book, sensibly advocates a return to a down-home simplicity: meat, fish and milk in moderation, plenty of green and yellow vegetables, grain and some kind of fruit. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's the most carcinogen-free of all?" Thousands of people have even abandoned markets, selecting organically grown guavas and "pure" rice in the nation...
...football team goes for meat and potatoes and anything else they can get their hands on. The women's basketball team is know for its predilection for Cahaly's ice cream. And the lithe, lean and weight-conscious members of the women's lightweight crew team are extremely fond of M and Ms, of all skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL...
...protest widespread food and fuel shortages. In Zyrardow, 27 miles west of Warsaw, 12,000 women occupied textile mills. A union official explained that the townspeople faced "real starvation"; they had to wait three or four days, he said, for their weekly ration of 1½ lbs. of meat...