Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While making French exports cheaper, the move would also make imports more expensive. In an attempt to protect consumers, Finance Minister Jacques Delors ordered a six-month freeze on the prices of most services and a three-month ban on price hikes for such staples as milk, sugar and bread. Manufacturers were urged to hold price increases to 8% next year (vs. the current inflation rate of 14%), and importers were ordered not to widen then-profit margins. To show that it, too, could cut back, the government announced that it was postponing $2.6 billion of budgeted spending...
...impossible to buy a loaf of bread in Hanover, N.H., this morning. The barber shop and the drug store are closed. Every man, woman and college student in that sickeningly quaint little hamlet has packed his sleeping bag, liter of vodka and can of green spray paint, bundled into his green down jacket and headed south to (and, oh, how I hate this) "Hahvahd" for a weekend of merriment...
...much of its money from the first federal agency abolished by Reagan, the Community Services Administration. Workers at FRAC wasted no time preparing the first meal to the new specifications. The paltry elementary school menu: 1½ oz. of hamburger (instead of 2 oz.), one slice of white bread (rather than 1½), six French fries, nine grapes, and a 6-oz. (not 8-oz.) glass of milk. The story was picked up by TV news and papers across the country. The New York Times's front-page headline: U.S. ACTS TO SHRINK SCHOOL LUNCH SIZE IN ECONOMY MOVE...
...small, discrete moments. He uses words less to evoke a scene than to catalogue it: "The sun was beaming through the pantry window into the kitchen; there was a block of yellow light on the wall above the table, set for supper with mismatched plates, glasses, a loaf of bread and a carton of milk. It was five-thirty...
...Connor's literary roots owed much to small-town gossip. His father was a laborer who measured his days in pints. But the future writer had a strong mother figure in Minnie O'Donovan. She put bread on the table by working as a domestic, and acquired a taste for the classics by reading her employers' books. Minnie passed the love of Shakespeare and poetry on to her son. He later returned the love by publishing under her maiden name...