Word: steere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What I'm basically concerned with is making more grain available," Mayer says. "You feed 20 calories worth of grain to a steer to get five calories back in the form of meat. In America, we use over 2000 pounds of cereal per person per year, only 150 of which are consumed as cereal--the rest is converted into animal products. In China, they use 400 pounds of cereal per person, 350 of which are consumed as cereal. This means that the average American consumes over five times as much cereal as the average Chinese--and to no great good...
...your bank account for six lessons in Jamaica and Houston. Tennis, anyone? The Wise Man is John Newcombe, the venue near San Antonio, the price $8,650 for a day. You dream of winning the Kentucky Derby? For a mere $5,750, Top Jockey Mary Bacon will help steer equestrian Mittys toward the winner's circle. Sakowitz's least expensive offering is the three-day bronc-buster or bull-rider clinic chaired by Larry Mahan of Mesquite, Texas, which costs $230 and includes bunk and beans. Bring your own accident insurance...
...whole oceans. The monsters are V.L.C.C.s and U.L.C.C.s (for very large and ultra-large crude carriers), huge oil tankers that already range from 200,000 tons burden up toward 500,000 tons. Such ships are so long that they have been rammed at night by smaller vessels trying to steer through the gap between their bow lights and stern lights. They will soon be bigger still. The million-tonner is on the way, close to a third of a mile long and so deep that Notre Dame, Chartres and Reims cathedrals could fit into its tank space with only...
...mostly in the form of bread or gruel; but an American consumes five times that amount, mostly in the form of grain-fed beef, pork and chicken. The industrial world's way of eating is an extremely inefficient use of resources. For every pound of beef consumed, a steer has gobbled up 20 Ibs. of grain. Harvard Nutritionist Jean Mayer notes that "the same amount of food that is feeding 210 million Americans would feed 1.5 billion Chinese on an average Chinese diet...
...Once in town, the Bostonians (two whites, two blacks) talked with student leaders from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County high schools and spent much of their time at West Charlotte High, formerly an all-black school that is now 60% white-and a showcase. "We want help," said Bostonian Barbara Steer, 17, and the Southern kids seemed eager to give it. "We want you to know we've learned a lot about judging anybody, black or white, as an individual," said Charlotte Student Dwight Covington...