Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blight will affect the retail price of corn-fed animals. Housewives are likely to find chicken prices rising in about five or six months. The record numbers of pigs already fattened may actually depress pork prices this winter and next spring, but agronomists predict that higher feed costs could drive up the price of bacon and other cuts of pork by next fall. Beef prices could also rise next fall...
...down from 6% in May. Economists, like housewives, are far from satisfied with that improvement. Still, the June movement looked like a trend, because it followed an earlier deceleration in wholesale price indexes. Wholesale meat prices, for example, began to drop in April, and last month beef and pork prices fell at the supermarket counter. Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, testified that he expects food prices to decline in coming months...
...could a generation have "the luxury of growing up in peace and security," as you put it, while its fathers were dying in World War II? I know a lot of Korean veterans who probably wish they'd known on Pork Chop Hill in the '50s that they "were not expected to fight or die for our country...
Rumania's Tarom has new, British-built BAC-111s on its international flights, but little else. Pilots hamhandedly overcompensate on the controls, giving each flight the quality of a roller-coaster ride. Stewardesses are plump and cheerful. Breakfast sometimes consists of cold roast pork and sliced green peppers. Bucharest has a modern terminal, but ground service is slow and surly...
Unrealistic Objectives. Such a switch might appease many congressional critics of the present program, including Senators William Fulbright and Edmund Muskie, as well as George Aiken, who recently damned the existing scheme as "a diplomatic pork barrel." It would also help to further lower the U.S. profile in international affairs, as Nixon wants to do. Military aid would be split off entirely from economic and technical assistance, thus ending a longstanding confusion. The U.S. would set up an international development bank, which would have $4 billion in capital and borrowing authority, and a technical-aid institute initially authorized...