Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sector will have to make up for the shortfall by distributing a total of 24.5 billion lbs. of food in the next six years--enough to fill 5 million Army National Guard trucks. Second Harvest says it cannot possibly handle that increasing demand. Already some pantries have had to ration their dole-outs to families and single parents with children. Other organizations feel the impact as well. Share Our Strength, a Washington-based nonprofit organization, provides funding for more than 500 food-based groups. "Many of the agencies we support are seeing big jumps," says Bill Shore, the group...
...banner headline was 'Seven Indian Starters Poisoned on Eve of Game," he says. "I remember the subhead because I loved it so much: 'Candy ration proves toxic...
There was a time when love affairs were "where it was at," but those days are long gone. You see, love is too inconvenient, too dangerous. We can't really ration or control love; that's why it's called falling in love. It consumes all other emotions, and certainly conquers reason. It relegates all other claims on our time or on our energy to the margins--if it doesn't wholly destroy them. As soon as love is recognized for itself, it unleashes a recklessness that can vitiate everything else we hold dear...
...typical of volcanology as a whole: more and more, researchers are realizing that the degree of protection their science can offer will be directly linked to the amount of money it receives. The USGS volcano program has been getting by on what in Big Science is a starvation ration: $17 million annually. Next year even that will be slashed by $2 million. The USGS's volcano swat team carries out its volcanic smoke jumping on a budget of just $750,000 a year...
...going to be particularly merry for Sears, in what is turning out to be a gratifying season for retailers of all stripes. Mail-order companies such as Lands' End and L.L. Bean are running out of inventory. Snootier luxury sellers such as Gucci and Prada are having to ration their high-priced goods...