Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with it a risk of typhoid and cholera, according to U.N. health officials. People had little choice but to drink it anyway. Fresh fruit and vegetables were no longer available, flour was in short supply, and lines formed at dawn outside shops that were lucky enough to have any bread to sell. The siege came at the height of the torrid Mediterranean summer, increasing the general distress. When available at all, a $3 case of bottled water was selling for $10. The Palestinian guerrillas were less affected by the food shortage than the general population because they had built...
...even Andre doesn't know I'm calling you. I probably shouldn't call, but I think I've received a pretty bum rap from a lot of people. I don't want you to say I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread, because I don't believe that either. But, dammit, I'm good. I'm really good. I've taken a not-such-a-great play and made it work...
...Mobile elementary school teacher: "The children in my classroom were allowed, if they voluntarily chose to do so, to sing the following jingle: 'God is great, God is good,/ Let us thank him for our food./ Bow our heads, we are fed./ Give us, Lord, our daily bread.' " When Ishmael Jaffree, a Mobile attorney, discovered that his three grade school children were being led in such classroom prayer, he sued. Jaffree last week expanded his suit, challenging the constitutionality of Alabama's new law as well...
Since last spring, the pills have been aggressively marketed as a "natural" product that prevents digestion of starchy substances, thereby allowing users to shed pounds even as they chow down on pasta, bread and pizza. Early this month, however, the FDA ordered more than 200 manufacturers and distributors to stop selling the pills, pending further research. The action was prompted by a rash of reports that users have experienced vomiting and diarrhea so severe that hospitalization was necessary in at least five cases. "God, did I get sick," remembers one Chicago woman in her 30s who was doubled over...
...most of the less-developed countries, the global downturn has been devastating. In Costa Rica, where unemployment has risen to 17%, the government is stepping up a program to hand out bread, rice, beans and other food to the jobless. In Tanzania, where inflation is running at 29%, the government has dropped 966 projects from its budget, including the construction of several schools and the country's new capital at Dodoma...