Word: soybeans
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...mechanism of patronage politics and politics of spoils. Among the benefits affirmatively targeted in this way are jobs, purchasing contracts, construction contracts, defense contracts, zoning privileges, land acquisition, and government loans in the millions. The recipient groups include ethnic groups, business groups galore, veterans, tobacco, cotton, dairy, soybean, wheat and other farmers and land speculators. When "social power" was the mechanism of affirmatively targeting benefits (during, say, the era of middle class an upper class WASP hegemony from 1860-1920), this was essentially "politics by other means" to crib Clausewitz...
Ferraro even handled a brush with Southern chauvinism with an aplomb worthy of Scarlett O'Hara. As the candidates dryly discussed farm issues near a soybean field north of Jackson, the state's venerable agriculture commissioner, Jim Buck Ross, asked Ferraro if she had ever eaten catfish. "No," she replied. "Then you haven't lived, young lady," he said. The talk turned to blueberries, and the 66-year-old commissioner inquired, "Can you bake a blueberry muffin?" Ferraro smiled tightly. "Sure can." Slight pause. "Can you?" Another pause. "Down here," drawled Ross...
...sour-mash whisky maker. "In the past two years, we have had so much adverse publicity about the effects of hard liquor, it is almost like having Prohibition back." His worry is premature. According to Gavaler, phytoestrogen is also prevalent in wheat, rice and hops, as well as peanut, soybean and olive...
This epicurean success rests on an improbable ingredient: a bland, gelatinous, soybean derivative called tofu, which many consider an affront to the taste buds. "Tofu is like eating your pillow," pronounces Washington-based Researcher Lisa Frangos. But she likes Tofutti...
...unfamiliar places. They help shrimp farmers determine how much feed to use, and the government has begun installing them in the offices of the country's 69 federal Senators. The legislators will use the computers to keep track of everything from the size of last year's soybean crop to the names of the children of their most influential constituents...