Word: breadbasket
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...Sudan's other refugees, which include some 116,000 Chadians, 250,000 Ugandans and 5,000 Zairians, the outlook is bleak. Once regarded as the potential breadbasket of the Arab world, Sudan has in four years gone from being an exporter to an importer of its sorghum, a grainlike staple crop. Through a combination of bad weather and overgrazing of arable land, production fell from 3.4 million tons in 1981 to 1.3 million tons last year. The result has been bread shortages throughout the country, even in the capital of Khartoum, and the frequent unavailability of supplies for the refugee...
...Shared Breadbasket...
...Midwestern heart. His admonition should remind us that agriculture is of primary importance to this nation and all other types of commerce and production are secondary. The greatest deterrent to a nuclear holocaust is our sharing with the Soviets the grain that comes from this nation's breadbasket...
...kind of Oliver Twist-flavored Hollywood punk, Piper (George Olden) does not like the Bleeding purportedly Catholic orphanage run by the sadistic Sister Serena (Ann De Salvo). Twentieth-century America being the breadbasket of the world and all, Piper has enough food--so much so that he uses the mashed potatoes as an ashtray-but lacks the respect accorded even laboratory test animals...
...crisis came to a head when, in an effort to press home its demands for religious and regional autonomy, the Sikhs' Akali Dal Party announced that it would begin to block grain shipments to the rest of India from Punjab, which is the nation's breadbasket. The action would have cut off 65% of the country's crucial grain reserves, threatening widespread famine...