Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Hoff calls her condition "a pain. I can't eat without somebody to get all of my food for me." But she added, "My roommates bought me flowers and Wheat Thins...
Sudan's limping economy was another legacy of Nimeiri, and Mahdi has not improved matters much. In June, responding to demands by the IMF, the government raised the price of wheat flour and reduced subsidies on nonessential goods. Angry citizens have taken to the streets to protest food shortages, lack of jobs and a 50% inflation rate. Although the rich silt deposited by the flood should give farmers a temporary boost after the waters subside, the economy's larger problems will not go away easily...
...extreme poverty and technological limitations. Untold numbers of poorly designed earthen dikes gave way last week. The embankments lack solid foundations, notes James Conway of the U.N.'s World Food Program, "because they don't even have rocks in Bangladesh." WFP has been donating millions of dollars' worth of wheat a year to the Dhaka government, which gives it to laborers for building dikes in a food-for-work program. Laments Andrei Filotti, a hydraulic engineer who advises Dhaka on flood containment: "We have poured $200 million into these dikes and drainage canals since the mid-1970s, and now there...
...WHEAT THAT SPRINGETH GREEN by J.F. Powers (Knopf; $18.95). Father Joe Hackett, assigned in the late 1960s to a comfortable suburban parish, struggles to keep his mind on eternity while coping with the nigglings of bureaucracy...
...price jump came sooner than economists had predicted, primarily because some food-processing companies raised their prices before they started paying more for their raw materials. But many producers have not yet hiked their prices; when they do, further retail increases are likely. The devastation of the durum-wheat crop in North Dakota, for example, is bound to result in heavy markups on pasta. The Agriculture Department maintains that the inflation rate for food this year will stay within its predicted range of 3% to 5%, but that forecast is looking increasingly wishful...