Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illustrate the effect of the domestic program cuts, a group of Democratic Senators ate the kind of school lunch that would be allowable under new minimum standards proposed by the Agriculture Department-a 1.5-oz. beef and soybean patty, one slice of bread, six french fries, six ounces of milk, and catsup and relish as vegetables. Said Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "This is absolutely obscene." Shortly afterward, Stockman announced that the new proposals would be withdrawn. Said he: "It was a bureaucratic goof...
Business financial planning and word-processing programs, which can cost up to several hundred dollars, are the bread and butter of the personal software business. But more exotic programs abound...
...several Soviet towns, the size of government-issued loaves of bread is reportedly shrinking. In a lame attempt at rationalization, Soviet newspapers are proclaiming that smaller loaves are more efficient because fewer bread scraps wind up in the garbage...
After explaining that the government set the bread or poverty line at 175 rands a month (one rand equals about $1.05), the driver said that Soweto's street cleaners earn 144 rands per month. The tour stopped at a factory for handicapped workers, where crippled and deformed men and women knit fishnet bags, clean foam, and weave tapestries on primitive looms. The chubby white director refused to divulge wages. "I never ask anybody what he makes, so I never discuss these matters," she snapped. One employee said he received 14 rands in July; another said he had been paid eight...
Those waiting in line, mostly working women or elderly pensioners, stand grim-faced, speaking little and frequently checking the time. If they wait too long in the meat line, they may find no fresh bread, milk or cheese. Some shoppers solve this problem by having someone hold a place for them in one line while they scurry over to another shop and queue up for something else. That tactic has its risks. If the first line moves too fast, the shopper might find that he has lost his place when he gets back...