In satires like "The Great Beef Contract," he mocked incompetent federal employees appointed under the spoils system.
To strengthen ties to Nextel, Akerson ordered everyone at Nextlink to switch to Nextel phones and beefed up contracts to handle Nextel traffic.
While Kobayashi was welcomed at Uncle Bob's Self Storage in Upper Saddle River, N.J., where he accomplished the feat, you may remember he was banned from Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2011 because of a contract beef.
Viz Cattle Corporation, for example, the American division of Mexico's SuKarne Global, handles exports of Mexican beef to Japan and South Korea, through contracts made in Compton, Calif.
Mark Cooper, director of research at the Consumer Federation of America, said that if today's higher prices are the result of a speculative bubble, then Congress should raise the bar on how much money investors must set aside before trading oil contracts, and beef up regulatory oversight of some commodity markets.
The agribusiness giant Cargill Meat Solutions recalled 8,500 pounds of ground beef after 3 people contracted salmonella, Mac McDaniel reports for Care2.
SEAHAWKS SIGN MILLOY The Seattle Seahawks signed safety Lawyer Milloy to a one-year contract, beefing up a secondary that finished last in the league in pass defense last season.
During the War of 1812, large contracts for U.S. Army beef were filled by businessman Samuel Wilson (locally called "Uncle Sam") of Troy.
A federal jury in Alabama yesterday awarded a group of ranchers $1.28 billion in damages after it found that Tyson Fresh Meats, the country's largest beef packer, used illegal cattle contracts to artificially hold down the prices it paid them.
