Word: sumatra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bean prices as much as $2 per lb. this month, following Starbucks, which raised its drink prices an average of 10[cents] in May. These chains cite tight supplies of labor and fancy coffees. Best advice is to scour the Web. Instead of paying $10 for a pound of Sumatra, buy two bags at CoffeeAM.com for $7.86 each and pay no shipping fees...
...Jakarta, but since late summer there have been more than 250 lynchings across the archipelago. The killings seem to be a product of fear, economic frustration and a breakdown of law and order as security forces are withdrawn from the provinces to cover demonstrations in the cities. In Sumatra recently a man was beaten and burned alive because he couldn't tell suspicious residents the precise address of a relative he was visiting. "The reality principle is breaking down," says Professor Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono of the University of Indonesia. "The more people see that they can murder without facing...
...Beresford's endlessly predictable Paradise Road. Do we know that the ship carrying the women and children to safety as Singapore surrenders will be sunk, Red Cross markings or not? Can we predict that the well-spoken Japanese officer some of the survivors meet when they stumble ashore on Sumatra will turn out to be a sadist? When the commandant of the camp where they're interned appears, are we not instantly certain he studied penology with Colonel Saito over on the River Kwai...
...Richard Schickel. "Do we know that the ship carrying the women and children to safety as Singapore surrenders to the Japanese will be sunk, Red Cross markings or not? Can we predict that the well-spoken Japanese officer some of the survivors meet when they stumble ashore on Sumatra will turn out to be a sadist? When the commandant of the camp where they?re interned appears, are we not instantly certain he studied penology with Colonel Saito over on the River Kwai?" And that's just the start of things. There's much familiar hardship and vile torment...
...Bunting Institute, Steedly Will work on a book based on research she did last year in the province of North Sumatra in that country she said...