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Everything changed in 1978. Based on a single study now considered flawed by independent experts, the Carter Administration's USDA allowed the poultry industry to wash rather than trim chickens and also to speed up the production lines. "It was the worst decision I ever made," says Carol Tucker Foreman, then the official in charge of food safety at the USDA. "They had that study, and I was convinced the consumer would benefit from lower-cost chicken." Many studies since then have shown that washing is ineffective, even after 40 rinses. (Trimming is still required for beef, "because the meat...
...Whitewater affair to take at least a year, although he has not decided whether he will review parts of the probe concluded by his predecessor, Robert Fiske. Meanwhile, the Resolution Trust Corporation requested that a federal court enforce subpoenas for documents relating to Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat and heavy borrower from the misbegotten Madison Guaranty S&L for his political campaigns in the early 1980s...
Federal regulators are investigating ties between Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Whitewater, according to report in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
...writes of a society grounded in family and memory of the Civil War. Nathan's father was named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and many years later he gives his own youngest boy the same name. Trudie, Nathan's mother, was the youngest of the three buoyant, beautiful Tucker sisters, all widowed early, who dominate the hero's childhood and the first half of this funny, rueful novel of morals and manners. The other figure who keeps recurring and who comes to obsess Nathan is the women's brooding "outside" -- or illegitimate -- cousin, Aubrey Bradshaw...
...teenager his mother was in love with Aubrey; in fact he paid court to all three girls. Nathan first becomes aware of him, though, during a train trip carrying the body of Nathan's grandfather, a U.S. Senator, from Washington to Knoxville. Aubrey was not welcome aboard, and the Tucker sisters, now young matrons, are particularly appalled by his efforts to join the funeral party. The journey is one of Taylor's best comic set pieces, a deadpan account of how the drunken antics of the male mourners caused a series of unseemly disasters...