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...into the popularity of high-protein diets like Atkins, which promote lots of meat on your plate. And then came Washington's decision last summer to stop importing live Canadian cattle, which accounted for 7% of U.S. beef consumption. Delighted cattlemen from Texas to Montana rushed to fill the void as prices went through the roof. Choice cuts became particularly pricey, in part because feedlots sent cattle to packers sooner than usual in order to meet demand. And skinnier cows meant fewer choice cuts for outlets ranging from Outback Steakhouse to Costco...
Whereas she originally thought Yeats’ preoccupation with ritual and superstition a bit “weird,” Foster convinced her that his behavior was a reaction to the void that the Anglo-Irish felt in the face of the superstitions and beliefs held by the Catholic majority...
...former globetrotting executives, international aid work fills the void that can come with retirement. For example, Gillette executive Mark Cutler, 54, had lived in five countries worldwide, becoming V.P. of Gillette's international group before he took early retirement last year. Suddenly the workaholic had nothing but free time. "It was very hard to walk away from Gillette at that age--[I didn't want] to replace those intellectual challenges with golf," he says. He tried traveling, and he puttered around his Longmeadow, Mass., home, but nothing gave him the thrill of international work. Having done some Gillette work...
...void in oversight at PBH created by her promotion will make way for the first re-examination of public service oversight since 1996, when concerns about inefficiency prompted then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 to appoint Kidd to a new position charged with supervising the student group...
...Hagamen, a freshman last year, is taking this year off to train with the U.S. Fencing Squad as an Olympic hopeful. Hagamen’s departure leaves Harvard with a void to fill...