Word: perishables
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent on every front: some 3,400 factories in the four front-line provinces have been destroyed or extensively damaged; Iran's largest port, Khorramshahr, has been incapacitated; the disruption of irrigation and the flight of farmers in war zones have caused $ 1 billion worth of cattle to perish. Yet the regime seems scarcely interested in attending to such problems. For the fiscal year ending in March 1983, the Islamic Revolution Records, ostensibly a record-keeping body but believed to be a front for KGB-trained secret police, was budgeted to receive 60 times as much money...
...mine. Eventually they return to the summer house with the pasty-faced, foreign prospective buyers. Despite the sight of their terrified children, they pretend nothing has gone wrong and entertain the foreigners. But soon the thistles go to seed. Some of the family members try to escape, and soon perish, but some survive by huddling close to the ground...
...provided a buyer is not found soon, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, it was the Press-Scimitar's swinish attitude toward reporters from outside. The Press-Scimitar would shove a camera in the face of a dying leukemia victim, yet when it came time for itself to perish, Editor Milton R. Britten wrote in a memo, "I don't want anybody with pompadours and gleaming teeth in our newsroom with Minicams on the last day. Nor do I want any local or nonlocal journalists on our floor." He went on to say that he did not "want...
...native habitat since December 1980. Unfortunately, by a curious botanical twist, a staple of their diet, the arrow bamboo, is now undergoing one of its periodic blossomings. When this happens, once every 45 or 50 years, a whole mountainside of bamboo may erupt in flowers, scatter seeds and then perish. The bamboo will regrow in a few years to sufficient size (perhaps 3 ft. high) to provide fresh food for the pandas. Meanwhile, they must scramble for other food...
...should hope that Western economists and politicians will come clean and admit that for all their talk about development, they've ducked some serious questions about the timetable of development. It's just sick for 40 million a year to perish, while others grow fat from food shipped away from hungry mouths. And to argue against immediate, sweeping change under such conditions is an abomination...