Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later in the day a third meal was served...
...would like a homey respite from the rigorous riches of continental cuisine. There can be found Frank Cooper's Vintage Oxford Marmalade, shortback Wiltshire bacon and Gentlemen's Relish, as well as Stilton, Cheshire, Caerphilly and Wensleydale cheeses. Until recently Osborne House also carried Melton Mowbray pork pies and bangers (sausages), not to mention Rose's Lime Juice, without which no true Englishman can survive abroad...
...members of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association gathered to denounce a prospective increase in interest for REA loans. They were joined by another veteran lobby, the National Farmers Union, which is aghast at the President's abolition of the Rural Environmental Assistance Program, a durable piece of pork barrel that distributes $225 million a year among all 50 states. So successful were the lobbyists' initial efforts that the House Agriculture Committee quickly reported out a bill that would require the President to spend the money appropriated for REAP...
Over the decades, farmers' income has grown to record highs, and REAP has degenerated into a pork barrel. Many farmers were paid year after year for continuing conservation practices that they were originally encouraged to start as a demonstration for their neighbors. Some REAP drainage projects destroyed wetlands needed by wildlife and subsidized the growing of potatoes in Idaho to the detriment of potato farmers in Maine. Former Agriculture Under Secretary John Schnittker voices the most telling criticism of the program: "REAP subsidizes farmers to do what they would do anyway. Most conservation practices are themselves profitable...
...questionable move because manpower training needs more central coordination, not less. The attempt was defeated in Congress, where manpower training has strong support-but for the wrong reason. Because the programs funnel money into many congressional districts, Congressmen tend to look on them as a new variety of pork barrel and vote for each other's favorite programs...