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...could dispute Kania's claim that the economy was in dire straits. With a $27 billion foreign debt, runaway inflation and falling production, Poland was on the verge of economic collapse. Panic buying aggravated an already critical food shortage; practically nothing was available except beans and vinegar. New rationing measures seemed imminent when the government announced that it had only twelve days of food supplies left. Both the U.S. and the European Community offered to send foodstuffs and financial aid; the announcements were obviously timed to encourage a peaceful resolution of the latest crisis...
...supermarket. Half an hour alone is wasted waiting in line for the obligatory shopping basket she must use for purchases. Always poorly stocked, the supermarket has been virtually stripped bare during the holiday season; even eggs have become a rarity. Says Maria: "All we find now is tea and vinegar...
...friends by playing the harpsichord and the viola da gamba. "Liberal, thoughtless, and dissipated," he called himself, and admired (without particularly envying it) the application of sturdier and more evenminded talents like that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the president of the Royal Academy. "Painting & Punctuality mix like Oil & Vinegar," he reflected...
...apparent that there's a certain amount of ferment," said presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell of the hostage issue, but "whether that ferment produces wine or vinegar remains to be seen." Last week's clues pointed toward wine. Not only did Carter say, in his first press conference in eleven weeks, that there were "positive signs" in the attempts to free the hostages, but near week's end Iran's newly elected President, Abolhassan Banisadr, also issued the most encouraging statement to come from a responsible Iranian official since the militants seized the Americans last...
...heating it and quenching it rapidly in water. For joining different pieces, they developed several methods, including a sophisticated process also known to Etruscan and Greek goldsmiths; it is called granulation, a form of oxygenless welding in which a drop of copper acetate (made by dissolving copper in vinegar) and glue was used to fuse the gold...