Word: milke
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...thus faced with the choice of either hiking prices or slimming down portions; many have already doubled the charge for reduced-price meals to 400. To help cafeterias cope, the Department of Agriculture cooked up new nutritional guidelines that would provide schoolchildren, for example, with 6 oz. of milk instead of 8 oz., and, absurdly, would allow schools to consider ketchup and relish as vegetables...
Last week, however, the formerly sacrosanct farm subsidies came under a surprising assault in the Senate. Rejecting the increases proposed by its agriculture committee, the chamber trimmed milk price supports, once the most sacred of cows. Protection for peanut planters was also reduced...
...most important fight last week was over dairy prices. The 1977 farm bill supported milk products at 80% of parity. That means that the price farmers receive for milk products represents 80% of the buying power relative to prices in 1910-14, which were golden years for farmers. The Senate Agriculture Committee's bill would have set milk price supports at 75% of parity, at a cost of $4.5 billion over five years. But the Senate, by a vote of 51 to 42, approved an amendment by Iowa Republican Roger Jepsen substituting the Administration's original proposal...
Helms was among those voting to trim the milk price supports. The next day, when peanut programs came up for a vote, he found milk-state Senators and others lining up against him. Agriculture Committee Member Richard Lugar, a Republican and former mayor of Indianapolis, came close to defeating both the committee's proposal to raise peanut price supports from $435 to $596 a ton and the system of allotments, which are Government franchises that limit the acreage on which peanuts can be planted. Helms was finally able to save the price support increase, but not the allotment program...
Those waiting in line, mostly working women or elderly pensioners, stand grim-faced, speaking little and frequently checking the time. If they wait too long in the meat line, they may find no fresh bread, milk or cheese. Some shoppers solve this problem by having someone hold a place for them in one line while they scurry over to another shop and queue up for something else. That tactic has its risks. If the first line moves too fast, the shopper might find that he has lost his place when he gets back...