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...raise public fears. "Beyond Beef is about the worst book I've ever read," exclaims Dennis Avery, director of Global Food Issues for the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Indianapolis. "It establishes Rifkin as the Stephen King of food horror stories." Among other things, Rifkin raises the specter of beef contaminated with viruses, including a bovine immunodeficiency virus that he provocatively labels "COW AIDS," though there is no evidence that the virus can infect humans. Rifkin also charges that inspection of carcasses is shoddy, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture flatly denies. However, even the American Meat Institute allows...
...SPECTER haunting this decision was Nazi Germany and its policy of killing the aged, infirm, mentally handicapped and other people whose quality of life was poor enough (as the Nazis saw it) to justify eliminating them for the greater good of society. This was the slippery slope down which the Florida courts feared to slide...
...because of lack of resources," he argued. Although he had raised $2.8 million since the beginning of February, his organization was already starved by then. There were no reserves to pay the huge costs of the media war against Bill Clinton in the South and Midwest. The specter of an ugly, expensive New York primary on April 7, where his penury would have left him naked once more against waves of Clinton television broadsides, was too much. "I would have been defined by others and unable to defend myself," Tsongas explained. "Worse, my message would have been wounded...
...Country Music Foundation. "In the '70s and '80s, with the excesses of the sexual revolution and the excesses of an out-of-control speculative economy, everybody lived as though they could have it all today and all tomorrow. Now, with the collapse of the savings and loans, the specter of AIDS, and a weak economy in which anybody who has a job considers himself lucky, I think everybody realizes we are going to have to live like grownups. Country music is definitely music for grownups...
...specter of heavy losses in recentbig-name council concerts like Suzanne Vega andZiggy Marley caused some members to say that De LaSoul would not be worth the financial risks...