Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem for the cattle ranchers is that the slaughtering of about 1.6 million dairy cows will provide a large new source of meat to the market and thus further depress beef prices. After the USDA announced March 28 that more than enough dairy farmers had volunteered for the slaughter program, the price of April beef futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange dipped from 58.2 cents per lb. to 52.6 cents...
...opening day in every other city is a festive occasion, whether the home team wins or not. Just ask any Yankee fan who has sat through an opening day slaughter--and then a manager-firing two weeks later...
...ease a nationwide milk glut, the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to start paying dairy farmers to sell their herds for export or slaughter and get out of the business. The USDA incentive: up to $22.50 in lieu of each 100 lbs. of milk that the farmer normally would have produced over one year. But to participate in the program, dairymen must brand every cow with a 3-in. X on the right jaw. Reason: without such markings, cows that were supposedly slaughtered or exported could be surreptitiously sold to other U.S. farmers ; and keep on producing milk...
...also remember the United States' dealings with the whole Middle East in recent history: support of the Shah of Iran; weak response to the Ayatullah Khomeini; condoning the Israeli invasion and subsequent slaughter in Lebanon; and recent big-stick bully tactics against a relatively impotent Libya...
...Banding together with other helpless minorities seems to offer no chance of gaining power. But connivance may. Stanislaw Kabbelski, a local police chief and, later, minister in a provisional Belorussian Cabinet, conspires in the deaths of strangers, then acquaintances, then family friends. His children witness the double-dealing and slaughter, committed by Germans and by Russian-sponsored Belorussian insurgents with equal abandon. Long before adolescence, the Kabbelski children are plunged into a world void of moral order. Kabbelski's soul-destroying deals are, moreover, made in vain: abandoned by the Germans, who are losing, and cheated by fellow Belorussians...