Word: rationalization
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...Grog has been the standard drink of seamen since the 17th century, when the British navy began to trade with the Americas. Rum was one of the gems of the New World, and captains gave their sailors a ration of the liquor. A vice-admiral nicknamed “Old Grog” began a policy of diluting the sailors’ rations of rum with water. He mixed in sugar and cinnamon to add flavor and threw in some lime juice to help ward off scurvy. Shortly thereafter, Navy Grog was served twice a day on deck and became...
...quite a record it is. Martel's protagonist, a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel, not only endures 227 days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but does so while sharing a lifeboat with a 200-kilogram tiger, which regards his shipmate as a tasty sea ration. More than mere physical endurance, however, Life of Pi is concerned with the difficult perseverance of the human spirit. The tiger is a threat to Pi's body, but then becomes the key to his spiritual survival in a sea of isolation...
...road. SOUTH AFRICA Ice Rescue A South African ship set out for the Antarctic to rescue 107 crew and passengers, including 79 members of a Russian research expedition, on board a vessel trapped in pack ice. Though the stricken ship has fuel for 45 days, it began to ration its food supplies. The rescuers worried about ice storms and the lack of daylight at this time of year in Antarctica. The South Africans are taking two military helicopters on the voyage to ferry fuel and food to the stranded ship. An Argentine icebreaker was also heading from Buenos Aires...
...terminally serious Meyssan, 44, launched the book on one of France's flashiest, trashiest talk shows, and he followed up with a string of controversy-churning TV appearances that further piqued public curiosity. The print press denounced the volume in turn - Libération retitled it The Horrible Swindle - but that too helped fuel purchases. The book now has the distinction of breaking the French publishing record for first-month sales previously held by Madonna...
...shops outside are full of fat oranges, Pepsi, Pringles chips, but Layla's friends without brothers abroad can't afford any of that. Some must sell off a portion of their meager monthly food ration to buy medicine. Imported medicines are smuggled in through the embargo-busting trade with Jordan and the Emirates, but only the rich can buy those. The poor get cheap pills from "private" Iraqi drug companies that "never, ever work," says a pharmacist in the posh Al-Mansur district...