Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Food production is down by 75% in some areas. Bread, rice, milk and eggs are in short supply. Production of major cash crops like sugar and cotton is off at least 50%. Investment has been scared away, unemployment has soared, and the last remaining whites (who number fewer than 30,000) are scrambling...
Sally Roberts, the racquetwomen's top entry in the singles tournament, reached the quarter-finals before losing to second seed Sue Graham of Yale, 6-2, 6-0. Graham was a finalist, but lost the championship to Princeton's Linda Rice...
Embree wasn't the only Harvard thinclad to place in Saturday's sundrenched classic. "Super Foot" John McCulloh, Harvard track's answer to Jim Rice, placed third in the college division of the high jump behind Allen of Columbia and Vaux of Maryland with a height...
...country almost from the time he took office in March 1975 as successor to Seni, whose government had lasted only eight days before losing a vote of confidence. Kukrit's Social Action coalition included 17 parties, a bloc obviously too diverse to be effective. While its factions bickered, rice prices doubled, the economy sagged, housing shortages increased, and the army threatened a coup...
...Rouge takeover, the authorities ordered a shocking forced march of 25,000 patients from their Phnom-Penh hospital beds to work in the countryside. This set the pattern. The populations of every city have been evacuated-young, old, sick, well-and forced, at rifle point, to work in the rice fields. All shops, schools and hospitals have been closed. Phnom-Penh has shrunk from a war-swollen population of 2.5 million to an empty and lifeless shell...