Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices seem to be on the rise. In his first term Nixon gave 15 embassies to generous noncareer diplomats-more than twice as many as John F. Kennedy, and one-third more than Lyndon B. Johnson. Certainly it is high time to take the embassies out of the pork barrel...
...platform: bring down food prices. From one end of the country to the other, consumers joined a boycott against meat, and both retailers and middlemen began to take a roasting. Some packing houses shut down, 20,000 meat-industry workers were laid off, and beef, pork and lamb sales dropped by as much as 50% in supermarkets...
...after he had loosened wage and price controls in Phase III, only two weeks after he had publicly expressed his distaste for controls on food, the President made still another of his celebrated turnabouts. Appearing on nationwide television, he announced that ceilings were being imposed on prices of beef, pork and lamb...
...dubious victory in a battle with bankers over the price of loan money, and labor leaders have begun presenting demands that could give a new spin to the wage-price spiral. It hardly seems likely that President Nixon's imposition of price ceilings on beef, pork and lamb last week-which already is being called by Democrats too little and too late-will make these multiple hassles die down...
...salad" is dominated by canned beets, canned grapefruit juice and a package of JellO. Other main courses recently served to the nation's highest-paid ($200,000 a year plus $50,000 expense money and free lodging and transportation) public servant: beef roulades, tamales, chicken egg rolls, roast pork and lasagna...