Word: meats
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...question, one of the most dramatic episodes in American financial history. A famously scrappy Wall Street investment bank, Bear Stearns, went from seemingly healthy to dead meat in about five days. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, desperate to avoid a sudden collapse that might cause a full-fledged market panic, invoked a little-known 1930s legal provision to engineer a Sunday fire sale of Bear Stearns to banking giant JPMorgan Chase for a mere $2 a share. (Bear's stock price was $57 a week before, $171.51 in early...
...what we absolutely, hands-down, must have are some mellow, meatless burgers. Harvard herbivores are salivating at the prospect of a Cambridge version of Zen Burger, the latest vegetarian venture by the makers of the Zen Palate chain, which has been around since 1991. The restaurant provides meat-free versions of everyone’s McTasty favorites—but the only thing this place shares with Mickey D’s is a love of prefixes, offering items such as the ZenChicken Tenders and the ZenBeef Burger. Hoping to turn their dreams into an organic, preservative-free reality...
...often wanted to know, if you had some shopkeeper or some small businessperson, how much government regulation did he face, how many bribes did he have to pay...those basic meat and potatoes issues about how business actually works,” Foote said...
...first impressions of Baghdad Everything kind of became very day-to-day very quickly. When I was a platoon leader, I lived in a converted meat-packing plant, [and] we were able to go out and meet the people. It's not like it looks like on television - even just the diversity of the area. Where I was living, even though it was in Baghdad, it is actually very, very rural. We had to move our strykers to let herds of sheep go by. Then you go maybe 15 kilometers, or even 5 kilometers to the west...
According to The Economist, there are two reasons for the rise: Asians and ethanol. Firstly, rising wealth levels in Asia have led to higher spending power, and Asians are increasingly choosing to supplement their traditionally cheap, rice-based diets with more expensively produced meat. But the second cause of skyrocketing demand for basic foodstuffs is America’s most recent renewable energy craze: ethanol...