Word: steered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party suffered a stunning electoral setback in its traditional stronghold of Hamburg last week, is even more gloomy about the future. While West Germany sits on the fattest bankroll in Europe, its leaders are haunted by an old fear: that if Germans begin to push, steer and wrestle the Common Market into the image they want, then the hatreds and stereotypes of the Nazi past will burst back in full venom...
Intellectual Course. Since taking over the party leadership in 1967, Thorpe has tried to steer an intellectual course between the Scylla of Socialism and the Charybdis of Conservatism. The Liberals sided with the Tories in favoring entry into the European Common Market and in opposing further nationalization of industry. They backed Labor in favoring worker participation in companies and a rein on the profits of big business. If the party platform seemed a little vague, something both the major parties took pains to point out, that was at least in the Liberal tradition. Even when it was the dominant power...
Fattened Costs. It has not worked that way recently. The feed-lot operators bought the steers that are now going to slaughter last September when retail beef prices were at record levels and ranchers were asking-and getting-as much as 60? per lb. for steers. The cost of fattening the animals has about doubled in the past year, so that for calves that go on feed this month it will be about 50? per lb. This surge results mainly from zooming prices for corn, the main ingredient in a feeder steer's diet. But packers last week were...
...little bit of high-protein feed. Their diet is made "hotter" by adding larger proportions of corn, malt, sour-smelling silage, beet pulp, minerals and antibiotics. The animal's metabolism is soon racing so hard to digest the rich fare that if its diet is drastically changed, the steer will sicken and could...
...bunker, one can detect no more than an inch or so of variation in the height of their identical-looking rumps. Uniformity is only partly the result of breeding. More important than genetics are the skillful methods used to turn every calf into a 1,100-lb., slightly blocky steer that will yield USDA Choice Grade Beef. The object is to remove as many variables from the beef-raising process as possible and replace them with more stable techniques copied from the assembly line. "If we do things a little bit better than the others," says Farr, "when we lose...