Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambodia has become a net exporter of rice. There is food available, but so much is reserved for export that the standard meal has become fish gruel and banana leaves. Even that is served in communal dining halls, which helps accomplish two government aims: to break up family life and limit opportunities to hoard food, which is needed for escape. Family names are being wiped out in the new order. Cambodians are now referred to by their controllers and the government simply by surname, with the term met (comrade) in front. Comrades are expected to do what they are told...
...retailers are not much affected. Their sizable inventories of imported goods were ordered and delivered long before the strike began and probably are sufficient to meet demand through Christmas. Some importers shifted away from container ships to break-bulk carriers (conventional freighters), which are still being handled by longshoremen. One day last week, New York harbor was filled with 54 freighters-half break-bulk and being unloaded, half containerized and untouched by strikers' hands. Goods are also being shipped in containers through West Coast ports, which are not struck. The increased traffic has taxed facilities there, but sellers have...
...become overorganized and start getting answers and information that you don't really need. It's something we fight all the time." For Harrah, a quiet ex-Californian who owns 84% of the company's stock, fussing over minutiae is a hard habit to break after 40 years. Recently he ordered a hotel restaurant billboard repainted after noticing that the rack-of-lamb dinner on it "looked raw." At 66, though, Harrah has begun delegating more decision making to subordinates. A close friend of many show-business celebrities, he still helps set entertainment policy at the company...
...With the break of dawn yesterday, the tenth of Dhu'l-Hijja, Moslems all over the world rise to celebrate the Bairam Feast. All head for the mosques to perform the feast's congregational morning prayers. The financially able have lambs slaughtered in memory of God's merciful exchange of a lamb for Abraham's intended sacrifice of his son. The meat is then distributed to the poor, the needy relations, and neighbors, leaving one-third for the family. Children eagerly put on their new clothes and collect a bonus allowance to spend during the feast holiday. Families exchange visits...
...rest of the quarter, the teams slugged it out without a score. Harvard's defense bent badly, but refused to break, while Yale's stingy defenders wouldn't give Brown and company an inch. At one point, Harvard failed to move after recovering an Eli fumble at midfield...