Word: tysons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some courageous USDA bureaucrats tried to right matters. From then on, they proposed, only chickens whose internal temperature had never fallen below 26 degrees could be sold as fresh. It was a valiant effort -- and it died quickly. The National Broiler Council, the poultry-industry trade association dominated by Tyson Foods, "raised all kinds of hell," recalls Lester Crawford, who ran the federal food-safety service at the time. "Given their political muscle, we reverted to the idiotic, unsupportable zero-degree rule almost instantly. Twenty-six degrees wasn't the rule even...
...probably count on most blacks to take the apology in good faith. African Americans are by nature a forgiving people, says Lincoln. So much so that many of them, including several prominent Baptist ministers in Harlem, threw a lavish ceremony last week to welcome ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson home from prison, despite howls of outrage from black feminists who charged that the much hyped ceremony was tantamount to enshrining brutality toward women. If blacks harbor such forbearance for a convicted rapist who has yet to repent his crime, it stands to reason that they will forgive fellow Christians...
Until last week, Christine Hong, an assistant account executive at the Los Angeles ad agency Poppe Tyson, had never won anything. Then she received E-mail "signed" by Taco Bell president William C. Bell, informing her that from now until the end of October she could order one free lunch a week simply by stopping in at a participating restaurant and uttering this password: "I'd like a Grande Burrito and hold the McSour Cream...
...lifelong "political junkie," Wilson says working on the transition team alongside Warren Christopher, Robert Reich, Laura Tyson and Anthony Lake was tremendously exciting...
Some economists believe budget cuts create economic distress if they go too far, too fast. Senior Clinton economic adviser Laura Tyson last week claimed that the massive budget cuts the Republicans envision might tip the economy into recession. Such statements strike some analysts as politically driven, since the Administration only two years ago pushed through a $325 billion, four-year deficit-reduction plan that it claimed would lead to lower interest rates and a healthy economy. That assertion has since proved correct...