Word: rice
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last night I was home alone for dinner. And I made fried rice with leftover Chinese rice that was in the refrigerator. I added some shitake mushrooms and scallions and some...
...which divvies up the two countries' trans-boundary waterways, overseen by a joint commission - has survived for decades. And even though nations can be quite possessive over water (India and Bangladesh have skirmished repeatedly over the shared Mahananda River), they trade it all the time in other forms like rice and grain that require millions of gallons to grow...
Eighteen months ago, when the world was awash in asset bubbles, there was perhaps no market more overheated than commodities. Prices of everything from iron ore to palm oil to corn reached dizzying heights. Crude oil nearly quintupled in five years; rice tripled in only five months. World Bank President Robert Zoellick called rising food and oil prices a "man-made catastrophe" that had the potential to quickly erase years of progress in overcoming poverty. Protests and riots over high prices for necessities erupted across the developing world. Pundits dusted off Malthusian theories that the planet was physically unable...
...That should be Jim's job. But he's throwing off a sense of uncertainty." Several sources say Jones seems to attend meetings rather than lead them. "He needs to drive the agenda," the foreign policy expert adds. "He has to be first among equals - the fact that Condi [Rice] couldn't control Cheney and [Donald] Rumsfeld in Bush's first term was disastrous. A lot depends on what sort of relationship develops between Jones and Obama...
...Korean teenagers from the border to the consulate in Shanghai where he knew they could be temporarily protected. “They have endured what the [United Nations] has labeled a modern-day famine in North Korea.” One of the teenagers received a bowl of white rice as his birthday gift every year, Kim said on the severity of the hunger crisis in North Korea. The route over which Kim trafficked refugees runs from North Korea, through China and four other countries where the refugees are not officially recognized, to Thailand, which is currently the only country...