Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge City Council decided to establish the collection centers in late December, calling the decree of martial law in Poland "an outrage of tyranny." Clothes of all varieties and food items such as powdered milk, sugar, rice, aspirin, and vitamins are welcome...
...place, 13 miles from town, is partly hidden from view by a pasture and a golf course. Otherwise it is all peace and greenery: swans preening on the lake shores; hedges that make quilts of the fields; grass so rich and various you can tell the county by its milk...
...successful football team's priorities. A few guileless words from Tiger Quarterback Homer Jordan in a magazine interview didn't help much either. An industrial-education major, Jordan described his study of materials of construction, coaching education and dairy science ("You learn about different kinds of milk, cheese, ice cream ... all the dairy products"). The Ivy League was recently kicked out of big-time college football for, in a manner of speaking, having such weak departments in dairy products...
...state's pricing system, designed to hold down food costs to consumers, was a blueprint for bankruptcy. The state was paying farmers 10 zlotys for a liter of milk that it sold in stores for 4 zlotys. Live hogs were bought from farmers at 130 zlotys per kilogram and sold as butchered pork at 70 zlotys per kilogram. Farmers bought bread and fed it to their livestock because it was cheaper than the wheat it was made from. Price subsidies began absorbing a staggering one-third of the national budget...
...giveaway still leaves the Government holding some 530 million lbs. of cheese-more than 2 lbs. for every man, woman and child in the country-plus 848 million lbs. of nonfat dry milk stored in 50-lb. sacks and 212 million lbs. of butter frozen at 0° F in 68-lb. blocks. Annual storage and handling cost: $43 million. As Reagan noted in signing the farm bill last week, "surpluses will continue to pile up" because the Government must keep on buying dairy products at prices ($1.4375 per lb. for processed cheddar) that are currently higher than commercial buyers...