Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questionable that even that would effectively squeeze Iran. The country has increasingly rerouted its trade to the north by land through the Soviet Union and is doing more business with the Warsaw Pact countries. Says a U.S. Commerce Department official: "There are eight planeloads of Polish meat flying into Iran every day. Iranian airports are littered with cargo planes from Rumania and East Germany. And the Iranians are very resourceful with whatever they get. Villagers in remote areas manufacture sophisticated weapons from car axles-yes, car axles...
...keeping wages lean. Bureaucratic ministries are slow to make minor price adjustments. Thus, when prices do increase, they explode. Last year Czechoslovak children's clothing jumped 200% and Hungarian bread went up 50%. At the same time, consumers regularly face shortages. In Communist countries, the block-long queue at meat...
...anything I chose not to reveal. She didn't believe me. I told her to light her cigarette lighter and hold it out. She did and I placed my hand, palm down, over the flame. Presently the flesh turned black and when she smelled the scent of burning meat, Sherry Stevens pulled the lighter away from my hand. Pale, Miss Stevens said she was sure I would never betray her, but excused herself as a candidate, invoking a just remembered plan to marry a Swiss airplane pilot in September of 1972. She asked to be taken home...
...realized that a short bipedal creature could easily enough break off a branch covered with hooklike thorns, and wave it as a weapon; lions, Kortlandt knew, stay clear of thorns. To test his theory, he journeyed to the Kora National Reserve in Kenya and set large chunks of meat covered with thorn branches near a pride of twelve lions tamed by George Adamson of Born Free fame. The lions approached and batted tentatively at the branches, but refused to rip them away...
...their paw pads, they retreated to lick their wounds. That suggested early man could have protected himself on the savanna by building thorn-branch shelters. But could he survive long sieges? To find out, Kortlandt attached branches to a remote-controlled motor on a framework over chunks of meat. When lions approached, the branches spun as they might had they been brandished by man. The lions darted away...