Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...built the store in the 18th century. It is popular among foreigners, who consider it as awesome as some of the palace museums that were once the Czars' homes. It is equally appreciated by Muscovites, because it stocks such hard-to-find items as fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. And for good friends with a taste for black caviar and French wines, Store Manager Yuri K. Sokolov was happy to oblige. But in April 1983, Sokolov was arrested on charges of corruption. Two weeks ago, he went before the firing squad...
...Chesapeake still produces some 50 million Ibs. of crab meat a year, more than that of all other U.S. areas combined. But oyster catches, which produced an astonishing 120 million Ibs. of meat annually in the 19th century, stabilized at about one-sixth that level some 20 years ago. In 1982-83 the tonnage dropped even further when a mysterious and fatal disease called MSX ravaged the crop...
Creator Mintz, 53, is not surprised. A former caterer and a devout Orthodox Jew, Mintz suspected eight years ago that tofu could be the milk substitute he needed to make an ice-cream-like dessert that would not violate religious prohibitions against the mixing of meat and dairy products at the same meal. "It didn't come out right at the outset," he admits...
...only in the last three or four chapters that Greer gets into the real meat of her argument--when she takes on the subjects of eugenics, of world populations control and of forced sterility--that her strongest biases emerge. Those who were angered by some of her more provocative claims in earlier passages will not swallow her sweeping claims about the differences between East and West, the crimes of governments, and the absurdity of the overpopulation concept. Despite their militant premises, her conclusions can be challenged but not altogether dismissed...
...Turkey War continued into the Ford Administration. On October 11, 1976 (conveniently one month before the November elections) Ford imposed a quota on EC meat imports of 1.26 million pounds. After negotiations failed to solve the poultry trade conflict. Ford on November 29, 1976 raised the tariff on $13-a-gallon brandy from $1.00 to $3.00 and the levy on $9.00 brandy from...