Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food vats, six huge oil barrels cut in half and fitted with wire handles. Working quickly, Somali servers ladle out two large cupfuls of steaming Unimix, a brownish mixture of maize, beans and vegetable oil, for each person. Suddenly, an elderly woman rushes forward, inadvertently knocking the steaming ration from a small girl's wizened hands. The child howls in pain and anger: the gruel is scalding hot (several other children display peeling scars from previous burns), but far worse, the day's only meal is gone. After filling their pots, the refugees file through the gate -- they...
...trees and shrubs shade the weary, and 96 restaurants replenish the hungry. But once over the bridge, sidewalks crumble and the highway dead-ends in a stinking garbage dump known as El Vacie. Within earshot of Expo 92's loudspeakers, 500 Sevillians elbow one another for their daily water ration from a small fountain...
...demand, which soon outstripped supply. That was good news for rival Ciba-Geigy Corp., which now claims more than half the market, in contrast to about 30% for Nicoderm. But Ciba-Geigy, which has already sold more than 70 million Habitrol patches, has been forced to curb promotion and ration its product, allowing newcomer ProStep, introduced by American Cyanamid Co., to grab a 13% market share...
...city's cost-per-pupil ration ranked third in the state in 1989, the last time a survey of such costs was taken...
...then people were stripping glue off walls for protein. Tons of rotting sheep guts were boiled down into a rancid jelly and handed out as the meat ration. It was not uncommon to see people collapse from hunger while walking home through the snow, dying on the street. Some would remain covered beneath the snow until the spring. A factory chief remembers a worker asking him a final favor. "I know that today or tomorrow I will die," he said. "My family are in a very poor way -- very weak . . . Will you be a friend and have a coffin made...