Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American team starts work each day at 7 a.m. They break in the midday heat for a two-hour C-ration lunch and rest period, then work until 5 p.m. Dinner is C rations again, washed down by military-style "emergency water" in gray soft-drink-size cans. Aside from the routine jungle hazards there is an additional problem: the excavation contains what Army Lieut. Colonel Joseph B. Harvey describes as "a significant amount" of live ammunition. It has been piled inside a display area marked off by yellow ribbons. The team's two ordnance-disposal specialists will dump...
...blocks of time to all parties. According to some Nicaraguans, however, the neighborhood Sandinista defense committees are becoming a problem. In the southern town of San Juan del Sur, "Rodrigo," 27, told TIME that his neighbors have been warned to vote for the Sandinistas or risk losing their food ration cards. "It's not a fear of repression, as in Somoza's times," says Domingo Sanchez Salgado, presidential candidate of the small Socialist party. "It is a fear of repercussions...
...total number is finite, and we don't know how popular it will be," Fox said. "I hope we don't have to ration them, though...
Reporters were everywhere. The French left-wing journal Libération was covering part of the Olympics from a gay bar. The nonprint reporting was equally assertive. To slake its countrymen's curiosity about Los Angeles and life in the fast lane, British television showed naked ladies sitting in hot tubs sipping daiquiris, looked in on a cocaine-snorting party and reported on esoteric appliances like outdoor vacuum cleaners...
Many of the refugees simply criss cross the border in search of food, but officials estimate that about 46,000 have remained in Zimbabwe, some of them encamped at bus stations and marketplaces and in fields. The Marymount Mission near Rushinga in northeastern Zimbabwe is serving a daily ration of beans and soup to refugees. Although local Zimbabweans have been generous to the Mozambicans, who are of the same tribe, the Shona, their country is also stricken by drought and there is little food available. However, the U.N.'s World Food Program has agreed to supply Zimbabwe with foodstuffs...