Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here. I ordered three hot and sour and two shark fin. You got it exactly backward. The moo shu pork came without any pancakes and where are the lichee nuts...
...personal conviction, they want to ban liquor from the family quarters, that is no one's business but their own. To turn the rest of the White House into a dry zone, however, is no more proper than would be a Jewish President's banning of pork and shellfish from the White House menu. Daniel F. Goldman Baltimore
Despite these drawbacks, public works can give a boost to financially strapped areas simply by an injection of much needed capital. That is, if Congress can avoid treating-or mistreating -the program as pork-barrel politics. When Congress approved the $2 billion public works appropriation, it required that 30% of the money go to communities with unemployment rates below the national average. Says one of the Senate Public Works Committee staffers who drafted the legislation: "It was a political necessity. You can't have all the money going to Newark. The Congressman from Scarsdale wants a cut too." Outgoing...
...lunch, what is mulligatawny soup, anyway? And as for the pork chop suey, you can leave it or not take it (sort of like heads I win, tails you lose, remember...
...right to veto contracts even if they are acceptable to assembly line people. Fraser's chief asset in running the union will be his great popularity; he is among the most admired men ever to serve the U.A.W. Rank-and-filers have never considered him a "pork-chopper," their term for a high-hat leader. They like his unpretentious ways-he often wears a turtleneck shirt-and candid talk. Sample: when "job enrichment," the idea of making workers' jobs more rewarding psychologically, was a fashionable subject in the early 1970s, Fraser remarked bluntly that the best...