Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Malnutrition and even hunger prevail throughout Viet Nam. Agricultural output declined 15% in 1978, while prospects for this year are so poor that Hanoi has already scaled down its crop estimates from the stated targets. Following widespread flooding of rice lands last September, the monthly ration of food per person was cut from 33 Ibs. to 29 Ibs. Of that, ordinary peasants and workers are allowed only a little over 2 Ibs. of rice, the staple of the Vietnamese diet...
Typhoons, droughts and other natural disasters have contributed to Viet Nam's agricultural problems, but government incompetence has been the principal cause. Bureaucratic foul-ups hindered the planting of new strains of rice that are more resistant to drought, and the distribution of pesticides in areas infested by plant pests has been delayed. Rice production is declining in the once prosperous Mekong Delta. Hanoi had announced that it was willing to trade consumer goods such as electric fans for rice, hoping to induce peasants to sell their crops to the government instead of on the black market. When...
...woman studio executive, Rice said, adding, "every studio now has a woman in a position of power...
...Rice said that unlike motion pictures in which male actors are the focus of popular attention, women are central in television scripts because "it's easy for men to feel superior to somebody who is only two inches high...
...Rice, a teleplay writer and movie critic, gained significant acclaim for "Best Friends," an original production for public T.V. She presented "The Fat Film," another of her produced scripts, at the beginning of the discussion last night...