Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Motel life might have soured their souls. The children watched television all day, and slept on the floor or shared a single bed. They ate lunch meat from a cooler, or cooked fried chicken on some electric skillets and a hot plate they bought from a street person. Brandon once tripped over a shoe and burned his hand on hot oil in the skillet. He sobbed for an hour, but Tamey did not think the burn was bad enough to justify calling an ambulance. She was worried about the cost...
Large urban centers like Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg (known as Sverdlovsk until this year) in the Urals have been hardest hit. With supplies of milk and meat down 10% or more from last year, big-city larders are perilously close to empty. Shoppers have few alternatives short of breeding hens on their apartment roofs or rabbits on their balconies. They can wait in long lines to buy whatever meager items city officials provide or to purchase scarce goods like meat at inflated prices in the free markets or from street vendors. Explains Natalya, an assistant director in a Moscow...
...country has always lived." Olga Ivanova supplements her meager monthly pension of 205 rubles ($2.28 at the current tourist rate) by selling eggs on a Yaroslavl street corner. She vaguely recalls buying smoked ham in a state-run shop six or seven years ago, but the only meat available now sells for 40 rubles (44 cents) for 2 lbs., or 20% of her income, at the free market...
...bargain price for many Muscovites, who are flooding into the provinces to do their shopping. Annoyed at the sudden influx from neighboring regions, officials in Krasnodar set up customs posts on roads out of the territory and instructed local authorities to search visitors passing and to confiscate meat, butter and other scarce supplies. The government in Moscow ordered the draconian measures to cease...
...Billy Strayhorn's great ballad of fantasy, loneliness and longing, Lush Life. There is also Nature Boy -- no getting away from that -- and such toothsome novelties as four duets with Johnny Mercer, including the memorably titled Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat...