Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate of five or six per day. The victims range from the scores of young men who have been picked up by the Guard only to turn up lifeless on some roadside the next morning, to the five children who tried two weeks ago to stage a hunger strike in support of the opposition to General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the President and dictator, to the guy from Cedar Rapids who taught at the American school in Managua and was killed last weekend...
Montiero said the fast, sponsored by the Harvard Hunger Action Project, raised $1400 two years ago and $1100 last year, and will yield about $1300 this year...
Malnutrition and even hunger prevail throughout Viet Nam. Agricultural output declined 15% in 1978, while prospects for this year are so poor that Hanoi has already scaled down its crop estimates from the stated targets. Following widespread flooding of rice lands last September, the monthly ration of food per person was cut from 33 Ibs. to 29 Ibs. Of that, ordinary peasants and workers are allowed only a little over 2 Ibs. of rice, the staple of the Vietnamese diet...
...markets" that offer goods stolen from ships or directly off the docks at Haiphong. Conspicuous consumption among Communist officials has become so flagrant that Premier Pham Van Dong felt it necessary to issue a prevailing order: "At a time when the people in several areas are experiencing privations and hunger, it is absolutely necessary to refrain from organizing wasteful celebrations and feasts. All sectors and all levels should uphold an exemplary spirit by practicing economy in production and a way of life that avoids all waste...
...economy drifts down, the present extremely strong hunger for consumer, mortgage and corporate credit will also ease, causing interest rates to fall. The prime rate on loans to big companies should move down from a peak of 12½% this spring to 9½% a year from now. The general lessening of demand should make a dent in inflation. TIME'S economists expect consumer prices, which surged 9% last year, to go up 8.3% this year and 6.8% in 1980. That certainly would not amount to victory over inflation, but at least the trend would be favorable...