Word: sugar
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...recent weeks, free government rations of such essentials as flour, rice, sugar and tea have been doubled to allow for household stockpiling. Remembering the fuel shortages of 1991, many Basrans are hoarding gasoline and cooking gas as well. It's accepted wisdom that power stations would be destroyed in the first wave of U.S. bombing, so the longest, most chaotic lines in the city are at the kerosene depots, where residents bring every kind of container--from soft-drink bottles to steel drums--to fill up with fuel for lamps and stoves...
...products in half-opened cardboard boxes, it's the least-inviting place around. But it's also the cheapest, and so the line to Aldi's two cash registers stretches the entire length of the store - about 30 people in all, their carts overflowing with cut-price milk, sugar, coffee, socks and other generic, non-branded items. One man clutches a box with a €79.99 computer printer. Ine Lendemeyer, a social worker, has a bag full of frozen chicken and Top Star cola, €1.49 for six. "Aldi used to be for people who didn't have much money...
...Sugar Ray Leonard and his entourage swept across the Harvard campus yesterday, spreading the retired champion boxer's message of supreme faith in individual effort, education, and the American Dream...
...each stop during the day, he emphasized the need to respect minorities for their accomplishments and work toward progress through activities such as scholarship and athletics. The world of Sugar Ray Leonard, he said, referring to himself frequently in the third person, has been a fair and rewarding place. "We are all given God's gift of some talent," he told one audience at Radcliffe's Agassiz Theater, "mine just happens to be beating up on people...
Asked about Harvard’s lack of offensive execution Saturday, a disgusted Elliott Prasse-Freeman didn’t sugar-coat the issue...