Word: bread
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...economic policy. His government decontrolled many basic prices, including those of bread, which had been regulated since the let-them-eat-cake days...
...neutrality" toward the Afghan insurgency, overland resupply across the border has become increasingly unsuccessfuland expensive, since the required bribes at border posts have risen accordingly. As a result, mujahidin in the hills have no meat, rice or corn. Above the Pich valley, they eat only stale millet bread and sairai leaves, which resemble holly in texture as well as appearance. "Because of Kunar's terrain I don't think we can be eliminated with guns," concludes Wahid, a 24-year-old former Kabul University chemistry student who serves as liaison between Jamiat units in Kunar...
...distributed last week told of Soviet soldiers killing villagers in Paktia and Kunar provinces and claimed mujahidin success against Soviet and Afghan troops. The letters are scattered in streets, thrown over courtyard walls, stuffed under doors, but most commonly circulated from food bazaars and stalls by wrapping them around bread or fruit sold to housewives and children...
Toffler's postindustrial preview also contains "electronic cottages," homes equipped with computer terminals, two-way TV and assorted hot lines. Citizens may not have to leave the house to conduct business, shop or even vote. In such an age of bread and circuitry there is no telling how powerful one might become. Says Toffler solemnly: "One can imagine a stage at which even ordinary television becomes interactive, so that instead of merely watching some Archie Bunker or Mary Tyler Moore of the future, we are actually able to talk to them and influence their behavior in the show...
...Sammy gave him the backseat, turned the radio on low and wrote a letter to a guy he met in Chicago. It was a funny letter but he did not have the guy's address. He stuffed the letter in the cooler in the trunk. A wet loaf of bread had green measles. One can of apple juice still bobbed in the melting...