Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another American, James Harrell, 41. The kidnapers' apparent motives: extort ransom from the U.S. and end American aid to Ethiopia. They dragged both men across 100 miles of desert in twelve days to a tent outpost. There the guerrillas held them virtually incommunicado on a diet of rice and canned vegetables...
Carl Yastrzemski then bounced out to first baseman Chambliss, advancing the runners to second and third. Jim Rice followed, lashing a two-run single up the middle...
...time worrying about social interaction with the group or joining the group activities I don't want to join."), the school flew to Tokyo. Each student lived with a Japanese family to fulfill the school's philosophy of viewing the culture from the inside (watching from within the rice paper porch the gardener snip pine needles in the bonsai grove). Bateson and Jaeger also held daily orientation classes at their downtown hotel...
...forced to devalue the currency by 42% this spring and has defaulted on $400 million in foreign loans. The inflation rate has shot up to 120% over the past three years, while per capita income remains about $90 annually. In recent months there have been serious shortages of bread, rice and other staples, and increasing signs of both disease and discontent...
Peaceful Life. While there is no evidence that the ancient inhabitants of Thailand built cities that could compare to those of Bronze Age Mesopotamia, their sophisticated implements suggest that they had a high standard of living. Artifacts unearthed at the dig show that the early settlers grew rice, raised animals such as pigs and chickens" and probably believed in an afterlife. The findings also suggest that Ban Chiang's residents lived a peaceful existence. The archaeologists found few weapons of war -and no arrow points in any of the 126 intact skeletons unearthed...