Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every morning at 7:30 a.m., 59-year-old Edward Carpenter drives to the wholesale meat market on South Hampton St. in Boston to look at a few tons of meat products...
...vendor has an order for a couple thousand pounds of roast beef," says Carpenter, the meat and poultry buyer for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). "I'II pick out the ones I want...
...HUDS' entire annual budget for food purchases is $4-5 million a year. Of that, 22 percent is spent on meat and poultry. Depending on that week's menu, between 3000 and 5000 pounds of beef and about 8000 pounds of poultry are served...
...other of whom scorned his client as a masochistic "beat freak." The who in this whodunit is known early in the story. Valin is more interested in precisely what happened and why, in how tenderness turned into a transaction and then to fatal abuse. The hustlers' barren backgrounds, the meat-rack bars where they work, the aging queens who shelter them, all are convincingly evoked in Stoner's impassioned journey of detection...
...public ownership of semiautomatic assault weapons, we hear the same threadbare rhetoric about the rights of hunters. No serious hunter goes after deer with an Uzi or an AK-47; those weapons are not made for picking off an animal in the woods but for blowing people to chopped meat at close-to-medium range, and anyone who needs a banana clip with 30 shells in it to hit a buck should not be hunting at all. These guns have only two uses: you can take them down to the local range and spend a lot of money blasting...