Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even passed the unemployment hot potato. Says Brown: "It is the crudest kind of political joke. Celeste and the policies of the '70s have created those unemployment lines." Possibly, but the punch line is that Brown is trailing...
...conservatives were brought to the State Dining Room the night before the vote. John Hiler, 29, a first-term Congressman from Indiana, suggested that a no vote would not be disloyal because it was a matter of principle. Reagan reminded Hiler that he had been "out on the mashed-potato circuit talking about a conservative philosophy when it hurt to be a conservative. Now it's easy to be one." Then the President put the issue in more starkly political terms. Said he: "What are you going to do to my effectiveness if you defeat this bill...
...economic decline. According to government statistics, industrial production in the first seven months of this year was 7.3% lower than in the same period last year. To compound the problem, early indications that agricultural production would improve this year have been thrown off by a long dry spell. The potato and sugar-beet harvest may be 25% smaller than in 1981. This can only put further strains on weary Polish consumers, who already find it difficult to make ends meet. Though wages have risen 40% this year, prices have doubled...
...they contain less grain and more water. In spite of the dilution, such beers are not all that much lower in calorie content than normal beers. Observes newspaper Beer Columnist Steve Byers of the Milwaukee Journal: "The calorie difference between a light beer and a premium beer is five potato chips. Why get a worse taste and flat beer for five potato chips...
...Boston at 21, an impossible thing to do, Rose had to make it in his home town of Cincinnati, which ballplayers are almost never able to do. Both were nurtured and nudged by worshiped fathers who competed in organized sports into their 40s. In Bridgehampton, N.Y., between the potato-farming Yastrzemskis and the Skoniecznys on the maternal side, there were enough men and boys to field a Polish-American town baseball team that was something to sneeze at. Carl Sr. was the shortstop, Carl Jr. the second baseman. At 15, young Yaz experienced the unusual delight of joining his father...