Word: queueing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Eight years later, as Ne Win himself once admitted in a rare moment of candor, Burma is "in a mess." The economy, almost totally nationalized, has virtually ceased to function. Last spring the state-owned distribution system collapsed altogether, and Rangoon shoppers who queue up before dawn are lucky if the shelves are not totally bare a few minutes after the People's Stores open. Prices have risen fivefold since 1962, but rice exports, once the largest in the world, are down to less than a third of their precoup levels...
Without Pumps. The town's half dozen lawyers, most of them named Sexton and vaguely related to one another, refuse to take non-oil cases any more. Even oilmen queue up to see them. "When someone comes in and wants title or lease work done," says one lawyer, "I tell 'em to put $300 on the table before we even start talking...
...rest of his life. In a befogged period of the '20s, he retired to Villefranche and spent his days staring in the mirror and drawing his own picture. Intermittent cures were painful and ineffectual. During one, he wrote: "In my legs there is a queue of ten thousand people standing waiting for the opening of ticket windows that don't open." Yet he was never idle. As Phelps points out, he published 20 books between 1924 and 1929, perhaps his heaviest addictive years...
...such that the only nun people would queue up for at the box office would be one who is leaving the church, and the only black, one who is demanding reparations from it. Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn must have lost interest before they wrote the score, and any playgoer will lose heart as soon as he hears it. Whatever money Joshua Logan received for his lethargic direction or Jo Mielziner for his anemic sets was collected under false pretenses...
...conducive to British prestige that holders of British passports should be wandering about the world like Flying Dutchmen." Finally, beleaguered Home Secretary James Callaghan issued Ranjan a three-month entry permit. He also warned: "I cannot promise to make it easy for those who try to jump the queue...