Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan has yet to cost the Soviet peasant his beloved loaf of black bread or cause serious disruptions in the Soviet economy. Yet the experts add that the limit on farm sales to Moscow may still have a long-term impact on the development of Soviet agriculture, especially on meat production...
...food in this country would go through the ceiling." World food stocks are now unusually low because of a combination of poor crops and rising demand. Chicago Grain Analyst Conrad Leslie believes lifting the Soviet grain embargo would lead to 18% to 20% price hikes for commodities such as meat, corn, beans and wheat in the U.S. this year, rather than the 12% to 15% increase now expected...
Although the U.S. grain embargo is yet to have a major impact on Soviet consumers, American farm experts say that the U.S. action may still have an effect on long-term Soviet plans for increasing meat production. For the second year in a row, the Soviets in 1980 had a mediocre crop. Moreover, while the government has so far been able to buy sufficient grain for bread, it is having increasing difficulty finding enough for animal feed. Says one Midwestern grain-industry analyst: "That situation is more difficult [for them] than during the first nine months of the embargo...
...observers. If the Soviet winter-wheat crop this spring is as poor as expected, Soviet economic planners may face the uncomfortable choice of increasing costly grain imports from Canada, Argentina and Australia or trimming back further on cattle herds and poultry flocks. That could mean years of less meat for Soviet consumers, a prospect that should cause some concern for Kremlin leaders. While Soviet citizens are hardly as restless as the Poles, it was last summer's meat shortages and price hikes that touched off the worker demonstrations in the shipyard of Gdansk...
...myself-if someone went six, I'd go twelve, you know? I had to move, not to get frustrated; and I was frustrated enough. In 1920 I went into everything you could imagine-Bahai, Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, vegetarianism ... well, that didn't last long. I have to eat meat." She studied art, acting and dance; she also took singing lessons ($50 a shot, at a time when a quarter bought a meal) from Metropolitan Opera Coach Estelle Liebling. The remnants of the drama and dance lessons can still be seen in Nevelson's carriage and in the ceremonious...