Word: milks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trading centers around the U.S. that arranged for $100 million worth of barters last year, up from less than $1 million during its first year of business. One Barter Systems missive to some of its 25,000 clients earlier this year: WANTED: $300,000 WORTH OF DRIED MILK OR CORNFLAKES, IN RETURN FOR AN AIRPLANE OF EQUAL VALUE. In another case, Barter Systems helped a tire company trade a jet airplane for $1.3 million worth of coal...
...Lovely Appetizer": "Her eyes narrowed. I shifted my 200 Ibs. slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down." He combats a compulsion for the bottle, wrangles with Alfred Hitchcock over the script of Strangers on a Train ("If you wanted something written in skim milk, why on earth did you bother to come to me?"), watches Cissy die by agonizing degrees, attempts suicide, and each time revives to go a few more rounds with a new book. In between he analyzes, complains and rejoices on stationery. "I don't know why the hell I write...
...Chicago, waving a piece of moldy cheese. "American taxpayers are spending almost $2 billion this year buying up dairy products nobody wants." Lyng was referring to the most blatant and expensive byproduct of the nation's complex array of agricultural support programs: the 12.6 billion Ibs. of surplus milk produce that the Government has purchased (at a cost of $1.9 billion) to help stabilize dairy prices...
After much debate last month, the Senate voted to let the milk price supports drop from close to 80% to below 70% of parity, which is defined as the relative buying power that farm commodities had from 1910 to 1914. But the dairy lobby, which, according to Common Cause, a consumer lobby, dispensed more than $1 million in contributions in the past two elections to the Congressmen who voted its way, outmaneuvered Administration supporters in the House. Vermont Republican James Jeffords countered a bipartisan proposal to pare dairy supports to the Senate levels by offering an amendment that would increase...
...sodium and caffeine. Shoppers pause, read package labels, searching for poisons real or suspected. Amid the latest warnings about salt, sugar, too much protein and assorted baneful additives, one current bestseller, Jane Brody's Nutrition Book, sensibly advocates a return to a down-home simplicity: meat, fish and milk in moderation, plenty of green and yellow vegetables, grain and some kind of fruit. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's the most carcinogen-free of all?" Thousands of people have even abandoned markets, selecting organically grown guavas and "pure" rice in the nation's 8,000 health...