Word: rational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bath soap and two or three light bulbs a year. But more of these precious items, as well as scarce fresh vegetables, chicken and eggs, can readily be obtained by anyone with an obliging relative in the commune supply department. Butchers have devised a simple means to bypass rationing to benefit their relatives and favorite customers. The scheme is based on the fact that each consumer is allowed to buy 20? worth of pork without ration coupons. In exchange for a length of hard-to-get cloth or a dozen eggs, however, the butcher will sell $2 worth of pork...
While the play is laced with affectionately bantering humor and a gamy ration of powder-room candor, the characters are Stereotopical. The overachieving careerist (Jill Eikenberry) has become a lawyer. The placid one (Ann McDonough) who opted for marriage opts for pregnancy. The rollicking rebel (Swoosie Kurtz) who planned to write a novel gets writer's block. Prosaic justice? All of the actresses are well skilled. They might be better employed...
...Security Service of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police. All of the incidents went back to 1972-73, when the Mounties were still smarting over the failure of their intelligence during Québec's terrorist crisis of 1970. Then two cells of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdered Québec's Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. According to evidence now be ing heard by a Québec government inquiry, the Mounties were determined not to be caught short again. Among other things, an elite...
California has long employed all manner of drought technology, which enables its farms to flourish. It has built a strong $10 billion system of dams, canals, reservoirs and other tributaries. More important, it has pioneered in new agritech-nologies that carefully ration water. Many California farms use irrigation-scheduling programs, which parcel out the least amount of water necessary to produce optimum yields. So-called SWAP technicians, who rely on computers to analyze soil, water, atmosphere and plant conditions weekly or semiweekly, can tell a farmer how much moisture to use for up to 60 days...
Computer analysis of photographs might press the inquiry further, but Close is restrained by his desire to make drawings rather than diagrams. The ink-drawn squares, each with its precise ration of diagonal shading, give one a visual effect that belongs to the same family - though not the same order of majestic intensity - as Seurat's chalk drawings; the spots of pastel in the stud ies for Linda are distributed with a dogged aesthetic zeal that recalls Signac...