Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst riots Egypt has witnessed since King Farouk was dethroned 25 years ago. The trigger: an announcement by Deputy Premier for Economics Abdel Moneim Kaissouni of sharp cutbacks in food subsidies. That, in turn, meant price increases in government stores of as much as 50% for a loaf of bread, while the cost of sugar leaped 25%, tea 35% and bottled gas, which Egyptians use for cooking and heating, 50%. In a country where the average wage is only $26 a month, the news was disastrous...
Until they find out what Carter will do to cushion wide fluctuations in the prices for their crops, some farmers are holding off on purchases of expensive equipment. Others anticipate a consumer rebellion over higher prices and are already explaining on TV that a loaf of bread contains only 3? to 4? worth of wheat. Still, there is an underlying confidence, which is demonstrated by the seller's market for prime agricultural land. In a year the price has risen by 28%, to $2,000 an acre, outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and by 45%, to $4,000 an acre...
...supper, I'm already nauseous and I haven't even gotten my tray. Chicken cutlets (I can't say what they remind me of) or Vienna loaf, or, why moving off-campus might not be such a bad idea after all. Too many green things in the former, and if you've achoired (get it, a + choir) a taste for the latter then you also probably like the beer at Father's Six. And the fricassee sause had bumps...
...Brown band, which soon made a lot of noise when Bill Gilligan gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead before most of the crowd had finished its manicotti lunch (surprisingly, that wasn't the worst meal of the weekend, as it ranked second to last night's meat loaf and/or sardine combination...
...Syrians, moreover, have even been able to put diplomatic pressure on the battered Palestine Liberation Organization. In what Arab sources interpreted as a bitter concession, the Palestinians last week accepted a "half-a-loaf" settlement they had consistently refused when the U.N. General Assembly voted 90 to 16 in favor of establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Previously, the Palestinians had always vowed that they would accept nothing less than the elimination of Israel as a state...