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After the five week "punching season" of cocktail parties and dinners, the "Pork," the oldest and most exclusive of Harvard's final clubs, elected William Bette Jr. '86, an Adams House sophomore. "You can't separate being Black from being the first [Black] person in the Porcellien Club," Batts remarked. "I'd like to thick, for my own sanity, that I was elected for reasons other than being Black...
...been removed. Kraft's Golden Image imitation cheeses and Light n' Lively yogurt and cottage cheese were, he says, "developed in response to a perceived demand by consumers for such products." The meat industry has also responded to this demand, by offering 95%-fat-free ham and pork luncheon meats. Over the past decade the amount of fat in pork has been cut 30% and the amount in beef reduced 6% to 7%. The American Meat Institute is seeking changes in U.S.D.A. fat requirements to allow further reductions...
...common name for this kind of support for government contracts is "pork barrel." Congressmen routinely try to direct lucrative government business toward home state corporations. If they succeed, as many senior committee members do, they create jobs for constituents and prime a future pump of campaign funds. Common examples of this practice include dams and other water control projects; designation of national historic sites, with resulting tax breaks; and construction of federal office buildings. Just recently, Cambridge's own representative, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, came under fire for this last category by supporting the construction of a federal complex...
These domestic sources of "pork barrel" are small, though, compared to the huge dollar value of defense contracts. Since much of the current federal budget deals with the so-called "transfer payments," the Pentagon purchases by far the largest amount of goods and services of any government agency. Just to indicate the importance of last week's engine controversy, United Technologies received 47 percent of its profit last year from engine and spare part sales, the majority of which were to the military. Sen. Dodd estimated the cost to the taxpayer of this supplier change at $2 to $3 billion...
...American taxpayer" should be seen for what it is--an unabashed play for hometown votes. Senators and representatives necessarily operate under certain restrictions, and one of these has always been constituent pressure. Tip O'Neill, Alan Cranston, and Edward Kennedy are no exceptions to this rule. When defense "pork barrels" look as if they might roll their way, these politicos have never been averse to a healthy push...