Word: breaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Said a Polish historian: "The Poles have gone on a memorial binge." Freedom was being won. But the battle for bread was not, and if this failed, all else would fail as well...
...consumers, was a blueprint for bankruptcy. The state was paying farmers 10 zlotys for a liter of milk that it sold in stores for 4 zlotys. Live hogs were bought from farmers at 130 zlotys per kilogram and sold as butchered pork at 70 zlotys per kilogram. Farmers bought bread and fed it to their livestock because it was cheaper than the wheat it was made from. Price subsidies began absorbing a staggering one-third of the national budget...
...badly needed food, though the Kremlin refrained from telling its own people of the action. Soviet citizens are anticipating their third disastrous harvest in a row and might respond ungraciously to news that Poland, which they consider to have overstepped the bounds of socialism, is almost literally being given bread from Soviet mouths. As one Soviet worker groused: "We send them our meat, we send them our oil, and all they want is more...
...will be in the Reagan White House, where 19 members of the family and close friends will come for Christmas dinner. To accompany the turkey, the President will get his favorite sweet potatoes with marshmaUows and even some monkey bread, a thick, spongy concoction he relishes. The White House is laced with vivid red, green, gold and white decorations. There is a giant bunch of mistletoe in the foyer, a 19½-ft. Douglas fir from Spartansburg, Pa., and the gingerbread house in the State Dining Room has a jelly bean path to the door...
...that work well to meet the minimal needs of the poor. Republican Mayor William Hudnut of Indianapolis endorsed the trend toward decentralization of government, but warned: "You cannot dismiss the poor. It's like saying 'Let them eat cake' when they don't even have bread." Protested Cleveland's Republican Mayor George Voinovich: "If you're going to cut programs it should be done with a scalpel and not a meat ax . . . Otherwise, we're in the strange position where a single national purpose is supposed to be pursued in 50 different ways...