Word: pork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of IRI Finelettrica, one of the five largest electric companies in Italy before nationalization, ENEL has at least had the benefit of levelheaded management. From the start, Di Cagno has steadfastly resisted political pressures from the left and right, refused to permit the agency to become a pork barrel. All of ENEL's 828 executives come from the old companies, but most of its problems are the fault of nationalization itself...
More Supermarkets. Many native dishes have also been given the American treatment. In Brazil, International Packers of Chicago cans and sells feijoada, the country's traditional black bean, rice and pork dish. When Quaker Oats moved into Italy, it found a winning product in precooked two-minute polenta, the cornmeal mush without which no meal in rural northern Italy is complete. Last week in Mexico, where the hot dog is becoming nearly as popular as the hot tamale, General Foods began selling jars of the fiery chocolate sauce called mole. Though the French have remained staunchly traditionalist...
Members of the Texas legislature, for example, told Conant that they were under heavy pressure from local constituents to allow junior colleges to become four-year schools. "Every institution is out for itself," confessed a lawmaker, "and when this happens education becomes a pork barrel." Only two states, California and New York, follow master plans for higher education. Planning for public and secondary schools is equally incoherent. A "classic example" is Indiana, where the state superintendent of schools is elected on a partisan political ballot and staffs the agency on the spoils system...
Food & Trade. There are more vegetables, pork and eggs. In many areas pork is off the ration, though its price makes it a luxury. Despite the ridicule he heaped on Khrushchev's incentive measures, Mao permits hog farmers, after delivering their fixed quotas to collectives, to sell the balance on a free market. Dogs and cats, slaughtered wholesale for food during the Leap, are again appearing with impunity in Peking and Shanghai, and even birds-once relentlessly exterminated as predators-have returned to Canton...
...Pork Talk. Hubert spent much of his time talking pork. "You folks have been doing all right," he said in Waco. "You've got the Twelfth Air Force tactical unit and the Veterans Administration office right here." In Wichita Falls, he claimed that Texas got $873 million from the Agriculture Department last year. In Little Rock, he paid tribute to Democratic Congressman Jim Trimble's pork-barreling skills by marveling, "The way it looks, he's been backing up his truck to the Treasury...