Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supply of meat to the domestic market will be improved by Dec. 31, 1980 [chiefly by limiting meat exports and increasing imports...
...fearing a hike in the price of their prime feedstuff, sent more of their cattle to slaughter earlier in the summer in order to save on feeding them. Initially, this depressed beef prices, but the long-term effect will be to deplete the herds, reduce supply and make meat more expensive later. The production of soybeans, another animal fodder, is off 19% this year, although prices paid to the farmer have jumped 24%; this will mean higher prices for beef, as well as for salad and cooking oils. The heat also killed 5.3 million chickens. Wheat...
...ARMAND'S TROUBLES Freshman Week did not stop with housing. Before coming to Harvard, Armand had resolved to be a vegetarian. So the first time he went to the Union for dinner he asked for Polynesian meatless balls. His had meat in them. Armand also had a good time at the Freshman Mixer...
...reality, all of Poland had been shaken. The Lenin Shipyard strike had transformed a series of scattered protests over rising meat prices into a workers' crusade for sweeping economic and political reforms. From its nerve center in Gdansk, the movement quickly swept the Baltic coast, spread southward, and finally reached deep into the coal-mining heartland of Silesia. Before the strikes had ended, some 500,000 workers at over 500 enterprises had joined the peaceful but crippling revolt. The work stoppages had cost hundreds of millions of dollars, pushing the country to the brink of disaster and testing...
...rule sets in. If it is not the dark, satanic will of Stalin, it has little to do with workers' wishes either. Although members of the ruling elite may have come originally from proletarian families, that connection becomes more remote as the entrenchment proceeds. Amid scarcities of everything (meat, soap, housing, humor, intelligence), the new class buys its provisions with discreet complacency at its own quietly exclusive stores. The mass of work ers stand in their interminable lines or else buy on the flourishing black market. Liberties and other items of bourgeois individualism get crushed under the great rattling...