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...entire day's allotment. Yet during the past several years the company has tried to improve its food's nutritional value, in part by reducing the fat and salt content of some items. In a current advertising campaign, McDonald's says it has lowered the sodium level of its pork sausage by 32% and its pickles by 21%. Last year the company started frying its fish and chicken in pure vegetable shortening instead of animal fat, which lowers the cholesterol level significantly...
...Republican Congressman Robert Walker, the $88 billion highway bill is filled with "page after page of pork-barrel projects." But to drivers stuck on Boston's "distressway," inching along Illinois 121 toward Peoria, or stewing in traffic in hundreds of other communities, funds for new roads, bridges and tunnels cannot come soon enough. Some of the most urgent -- and the most questionable...
...crisis, roaming free behind enemy lines. Heaven help the Warsaw Pact's air force! Then consider the boars' utility as anti-personnel weapons. An AK-47-toting infantryman who thinks nothing of charging fortified NATO positions will quake in his boots when he sees a ton of angry pork charging...
Some Senate Republicans have described the plan as ``a goodbye present for [former Speaker of the House Thomas P.] `Tip' O'Neill,'' President Reagan and his Congressional supporters have characterized the package as a classic example of the Democratic "pork barrel" politics which were often associated with O'Neill's career...
...There were definite concerns about some of the pork in the bill," said Brad Minnick, chief of staff for State House Minority Leader Steven Pierce. "[Pierce's] general philosophy is one of great concern for how the taxpayers' dollars are spent...