Word: metrically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the squalor of Ethiopia's rapidly rilling refugee camps, little help appeared to be in sight last week. As of Thursday, the country had only 8,000 metric tons of grain left, and storehouses in Addis Ababa, Kembolcha and Nazaret were virtually empty. Said Taffari Wossen, chief spokesman for Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee: "We are getting more sympathy than assistance. In terms of actual need, we are still very far from our targets." Warned a Western relief official: "The cupboard is bare...
...Boston headquarters at the rate of about $1 million a month, and World Vision in California has raised $2.5 million in the past six weeks, including one check for $250,000. Canada announced a further government contribution of $5.6 million. The European Economic Community will send 55,000 metric tons of grain this month...
...amount of fish they are allowed to take from American territorial waters. Such sanctions would have little impact on countries that do their fishing close to home. But they would have an enormous effect on the fish-eating Japanese, who last year alone accounted for 971,000 metric tons, or nearly 75% of the 1.3 million metric tons of fish taken from U.S. waters by foreign fishermen...
...prolonged malnutrition. Domestic harvests scheduled to commence next month probably will yield only two thirds of the usual total and the next major harvest is not expected for another year. There's no guarantee that those harvests won't fail; specialists have estimated that a minimum of 600,000 metric tons of grain will be needed in Ethiopia for the next year, although many say that people could be starving for years...
...last week for a special plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee. The weather must have been very much on his mind. For the sixth consecutive year, the Soviet climate had played havoc with grain crops. The yield, according to Western estimates, was expected to measure only 170 million metric tons, well below the 220 million metric tons needed for annual consumption...