Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Santos government committing an estimated 80% of its budget to military needs, the economy has been thrown into chaos. These days a dollar will buy more than 1,500 kwanza on the black market, or 50 times as much as at the official exchange rate. At bank rates, a sack of potatoes costs $100. Some 750,000 squatters jam the garbage-filled streets of Luanda, where many scrounge through trash cans for food and live in shacks. Even a confidential Soviet report on the capital acknowledged its "sense of hopelessness...
...arrested along with the couple but survived, told the court that police threw Jean-Jacques into the trunk of their automobile for the drive to headquarters, where Desyr took part in the interrogation. In a darkened cell, Alix Ambroise said, he later heard what sounded like a "sack of coconuts" being dumped onto the floor. It was the broken body of his cousin, near death as a result of police beatings. Emmanuel Ambroise called Desyr and other Duvalier followers "sadistic animals who were satisfying their instincts in executing Duvalier's orders." After less than an hour's deliberation...
...friends to support her habit. She soon turned to prostitution and went through two abortions before she was 16. "I didn't give a damn about protecting myself," she said. "I just wanted to get high. Fear of pregnancy didn't even cross my mind when I hit the sack with someone for drugs...
...Narcolepsy Table for pure comic potential. Most fascinating of all will be the fiery spectacle of the Spontaneous Combustion Table. And for those interested in a more somber dining experience, over in the darkest corner of the dining hall, all by itself, and covered with a lumpy burlap sack, will be the Elephant Table...
Most of the blame for Haiti's economic straits can be placed directly on Duvalier. Finance Minister Marcel Leger disclosed earlier this month that the ex-President-for-Life had skimmed off $1 from the price of every sack of flour that was milled in Haiti. Annual average production amounted to 2.5 million sacks. The Duvalier family had also demanded a 50 cents "tithe" on every sack of cement that was sold. Managers of state monopolies in the sugar and cooking-oil industries have admitted to kicking back money over the years, resulting in higher prices for staple commodities...