Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galardi's basic burger is thin-he gets ten patties per pound of meat-and comes wrapped in plain paper. The price goes up to as much as 95? for a double cheeseburger. Says Customer Tim Hebert, 17, a high school student: "It's incredibly average, but it's cheap...
Similarly, Allegheny International played rescuer to Sunbeam in late 1981, saving it from takeover by IC Industries, Inc. Soon, however, Sunbeam Chief Robert Gwinn and 160 of his colleagues found themselves out of jobs. Complained one executive: "They went at us with a meat ax. If Allegheny is a white knight, God save us from white knights." But Allegheny has complaints too. Chairman Robert Buckley said he discovered in Sunbeam "problems under the surface that were greater than they seemed...
...doubt he wanted to make a thorough and scholarly compilation, but the nearly 400 letters probably could have been cut by about a third without losing much. Nevertheless, it is well worth skimming through the housekeeping details, travel plans, and mundane dealings with editors to get to the plentiful meat...
...article "Prague's Sullen Winter" [Jan. 10] you say "a middle-level executive is responsible for overseeing the production of 2 million tons of canned meat a day." Two million tons is 4 billion lbs. With a global population of 4.585 billion this is almost 1 lb. of meat a day for every person in the world. No wonder the plant cannot meet its quota...
WICHITA. Four years ago, this community's fortunes were so high that its main problem was finding enough workers to accept its jobs. A bustling producer of meat, wheat, planes, oil and gas, Wichita (pop. 279,000) had the remarkably low unemployment rate of 2.8%. With rows of aerospace plants and enormous grain elevators rising from the prairies, it exuded a robust self-confidence. But the aircraft industry, as well as others, nosedived. More than 20,000 workers were laid off, and the unemployment rate is now 8.5%. "If we can just get people through the next...