Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October, when the government reimposed a state of emergency, the crackdown on civil liberties has not produced a significant rise in support for either the contras or the opposition parties. Most Nicaraguans seem to accept things the way they are. "Sure we're Sandinistas," says Maria Berrios, who sells bread in Managua's Eastern Market. "We have to go along with whoever is here...
Worse, analysts predict that falling petroleum prices may cost Egypt an additional $700 million in export revenues this year. Plummeting revenues have forced the government to cut back on the $7 billion that it spends in subsidies for basic goods such as bread and gasoline, and this has fed popular discontent...
...Yale festivities include a freshmen skit which is seldom watched for more than two minutes at which point a shower of garbage--oranges, milk, eggs, bread, anything you can imagine--and a full-scale battle is waged...
...recent council meeting, shelter staff and Cambridge residents testified that the homeless community is not a harmful one. As one woman--who advocated a shelter in her East Cambridge neighborhood, near the gourmet food store Bread and Circus--put it, "I've never been harrassed, threatened, or even intimidated by a homeless person, but I have been harrassed, threatened and intimidated by Bread and Circus customers...
...committee decided that the department's biggest problem was that it was weak in mainstream, bread-and-butter sociology. Mainstream sociology, which can be either statistically or historically based, includes organizational studies, social psychology, political sociology, and sophisticated mathematical modeling...