Word: milke
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Since early July, workers in 68 enterprises have walked off the job. The most dramatic protest occurred in Lublin (pop. 300,000), where railway and other transport workers brought the southeastern city to a standstill for three days. The army had to be called in to deliver milk and bread. Instead of resorting to force, local party leaders used wall posters to appeal for a return to order. Among the pleas was a Politburo warning that the strikes "could awaken the concern of our neighbors"-a thinly veiled reference to the possibility of Soviet intervention...
...from the abuse of women in Soviet prisons to the unhygienic conditions in maternity hospitals and abortion clinics. One typical article described how working mothers are obliged to leave their small children at state day care centers that are run by staff members who often water their charges' milk and steal much of their food...
...negative side, however, indexation has proved to be an engine of more price rises. Israeli inflation has created a disoriented economy in which consumers become so buffeted by price increases that they no longer even remember what an item is really worth. The price of milk, for example, has climbed nearly 30% in just over a month to ?.27 (53?) per liter. Five years ago, the same item cost ?2.50. A large number of businesses are hurting so badly that they are cutting back on staff or closing down. A major cause: the annual interest rate on bank loans...
...Congress gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to regulate the fledgling trucking business. But over the years, as the infant grew into a $108 billion-a-year leviathan, the agency produced some startlingly ludicrous anomalies. Agricultural haulers, for example, could carry milk but not yogurt or ice cream; truckers could move grain from farm to market but could not take animal feed back in their empty trucks. Reason: both milk and grain were exempt from ICC regulation as unprocessed commodities, whereas yogurt, ice cream and animal feed were regulated...
Still, one of the most memorable moments of the trip for Carter did not take place during the formal talks on San Giorgio Maggiore island but during a simple breakfast of bread, milk and cheese that he ate one morning with a dozen Benedictine monks. Carter was the only one of the seven leaders to accept the monks' invitation to share a meal at their 16th century monastery. Relating the experience afterward to a rather incredulous British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Carter said that the monks had offered a special prayer...