Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplies of wheat, meat and cotton cloth to be distributed, but even that is not enough. "The real problem," one leftist intellectual Cairene told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn last week, "is the deterioration of the economy. These troubles are not plots masterminded by some Marxist. The real generalissimo is hunger." That is one generalissimo who could be defeated by a Middle East peace-but who would surely win if the area returned...
...knows the nation needs more basic change than either major party proposes. A generation of Government subordination to oil corporations has created a wasteful, vulnerable energy economy. The welfare handouts for agribusiness, known as the farm program, have increased both food prices and hunger...
Laragh, like his mentor, also believes in hard work. He gets to his office by 7 o'clock most mornings and shuttles between there, the Hypertension Center and his laboratory until hunger, exhaustion or Jean Sealey-a biochemist and his bride of four months-forces him to stop. "We haven't even had a honeymoon yet," complains Jean in a soft burr that attests to her origins in Glasgow, Scotland. "The day after we were married we went off to a hypertension meeting in Milan." But Laragh, who has two sons by a previous marriage that ended...
...Africa, only Nigeria has any big known reserves of oil, and Gabon, the Congo Republic and Angola possess some oil. For the other black African countries, the petrobill came to $1.3 billion last year. Development plans were stymied because so much money was drained off for oil. Drought-induced hunger became worse, in part because those countries could no longer afford as much gasoline to run their tractors, or fertilizers to nourish their fields. Inflation raced at rates averaging...
...himself and gain the respect of his colleagues. A paper by a German physician named Theodor Aschen-brandt seemed to provide the way. Conquistadores had noted the stimulant effect of coca leaves on Andean Indians. Aschenbrandt tried the drug on Bavarian soldiers and cautiously reported that while suppressing their hunger, it also increased their mental powers and capacity to endure strain...