Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dusk, the poor come home to another meal of beans and rice; then, they relax in the doorways and chat with their neighbors along the streets of dust. An inferno of small children runs everywhere. The literate adults--estimated at between 50 and 60 per cent of the population--cannot read at night because there is no electricity. They cannot bathe; there is neither running water not toilets. So they perhaps light a candle to prolong the day, and the conversations, before going...
...impact of the world shortage on the United, States was accentuated by several other developments. The 1972 fish catch off the Peruvian coast was a failure, reducing the supply of protein meal available to European markets and in turn increasing the export demand for soybean and soybean meal in the United States. The failure of the peanut crop in South Asia and parts of Africa further contributed to the shortage of protein meals. The major devaluation of the dollar made the United States a particularly cheap place to acquire needed proteins and hence acted to increase the demand...
...five-per-cent Massachusetts meal tax may raise board contracts at Harvard by about $50. Donald C. Moulton, vice president for community affairs, said yesterday...
True said yesterday that it is "unfair to tax meal contracts" at schools because students who eat at home are not taxed. "The association feels the same rule should apply to students [who eat] at colleges," he said...
...noon. That night the staff spent $560 for a dinner at Joseph's, a restaurant they listed in the conference program as "very expensive" and the "favorite of Proper Bostonians." They went out to lunch and dinner at restaurants on Friday and Saturday, spending $240 at the cheapest meal, and then ended the conference with a $46.3 lunch on Sunday. There was also an $800 liquor bill--the delegates being underage couldn't drink, but their faculty advisers and the Harvard students could--and several miscellaneous expenses, personal expenses and petty cash items. All the money came from delegate...