Word: rational
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Although supplies are erratic, cigarettes and bread are practically the only major staples not rationed these days in this industrial center of 1.1 million, situated 700 miles northeast of Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway line through the Ural Mountains. Salt, sugar, butter, eggs, macaroni and even matches must be bought with ration coupons -- assuming, of course, that state- run stores have the items. At harvest time, a shortage of sugar caused a near panic; without it, fruits and berries from family garden plots could not be made into preserves for the coming winter. In Perm, as elsewhere in provincial...
...first cell was a cramped room in Beirut's Shi'ite slums where he lay chained and blindfolded. Later he and four others were moved to a basement dungeon that was partitioned into cubicles. The guards beat them and repeatedly threatened to kill them. , Food was a meager ration of bread, tea and cheese...
...dissatisfaction is particularly acute today. Last August, Cuba tightened its rationing measures because of Soviet aid cutbacks and the long-standing U.S. embargo. Every Cuban is entitled to only two rolls a day and less than a pound of meat every nine days. Particularly painful to the fashion-conscious young is rationing that limits them to just one new dress, a pair of pants and a pair of dress shoes a year. Grandmothers hand over their yearly ration of textile coupons to the young; mothers sell their gold jewelry for consumer goods like TVs and radios. "Those under...
...engineering, as interference with free lives and free markets. Broadcasting and medicine are just two areas where the more radical solution, the more egalitarian one, is more oriented toward free markets. But don't expect conservatives to take up this rallying cry. Some of them would rather admit a ration of minorities into their cozy establishments than see those establishments truly shaken up. Others, like Jesse Helms, would rather rub racial wounds raw than promote their own alleged principles...
...problem: many natural attractions are experiencing "greenlock." Not only are popular parks from Acadia in Maine to Yosemite in California jammed with visitors, but the overcrowding is spreading to state parks, national forests and rivers, raising environmental concerns and threatening the wilderness "experience." Everywhere, authorities are having to ration the outdoors with lotteries, permits and reservations for everything from biking to hiking. "It's ironic," observes University of California historian Roderick Nash. "By making wilderness popular, we now have to save it from its friends...