Word: milked
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...Dougherty. “We are running into a lot of trouble with the same issues, like fuel charges and commodity prices,” said Megan O’Neill, associate director of restaurant operations at Boston College (BC). O’Neill specifically referenced flour and milk prices. Food prices have increased 75 percent since 2005, according to a recent article in The Economist. At BC the increase in food prices is directly passed on to the students and does not diminish the food’s quality. The college has “a little more leeway...
...long hallway. The site is reminiscent of a military checkpoint, but the eager consumers seeking entrance are there for a less sinister reason. They're stocking up on basic food supplies such as rice, black beans, and what has, in recent months, become the Holy Grail of edibles: powdered milk...
Shipments of powdered milk from Belarus are providing a temporary respite. The government is "increasing the amount of powdered milk in order to reduce the demand on liquid milk," says Roger Figueroa, executive director of the Venezuelan Milk Industry Chamber. Such shortages of milk and other food staples have intermittently plagued Venezuela since 2003, when the government imposed price controls. Now, the leftist government of President Hugo Chavez is blaming businesses for the crisis even as economic analysts believe the government's own policies have brought about the debacle...
...call sign. I want to see one of the candidates propose some—in fact, almost any—alternative. The “Department of Domestic Security.” The “Federal Security Department.” Even the “Department of Milk and Cookies.” Such a proposal could serve the next president as the first signal of a broader process to demonstrate to our friends an America reconsidering the shadow it casts in the world.Even at the time of its creation, the lexicology of “Homeland Security?...
...place, he gushed less about socialism's glories and railed more at the country's "deficiencies, errors and indolent bureaucratic attitudes." As a result, many expect one of his first major policy plays to be a wholesale reform of Cuban agriculture, which can't supply even staples like milk, with provisions like more profit-oriented farmers markets. That may well be followed by similar liberalization in service industries like tourism, where Cubans often make appreciably more than the nation's paltry $15-a-month average wage...