Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are hardly any rumors, and the streets are so empty that even impoverished La Paz, Bolivia, teems with traffic by comparison. The armed militiamen and -women once standing guard in truculent excitement before virtually every public building have disappeared. Life has become predictable, its Latin impulse governed by ration books, arbitrary government edicts and complex forms to be filled out in quadruplicate...
...model: a little sign in the view finder flashes "yes" or "no" to tell the photographer whether the light is right. The company launched the camera in Canada last July, sold out practically all its first month's supply in one weekend, now has to ration its stocks to Canadian dealers. The Swinger says President Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, "will find its market among teenagers, young married people and families that want a second camera." To reach them better Polaroid will broaden its distribution system, sell its cameras in drugstores and college book stores...
...Fishermen. These are short-term measures at best, and wherever possible, the refugees are sent home or to new resettlement villages after two months in the camps. Those willing to resettle are given a piece of land, housing material, a six-month ration of rice and 3,500 piasters ($47) to help them get started. So far this year, 208,000 refugees have left the camps for new homes. One group of farmers even decided to take up fishing, founded its own fishing village on the shore of the South China...
...doubled its ad revenues to more than $7,000,000 in the same time. Although it limits ads to ten minutes a night, France managed to sell $5,000,000 in commercials last year. Switzerland, which allowed its first commercial only six months ago, has been forced to ration time among more than 170 clamoring firms, expects to reap $5,000,000 in television advertising this year...
...host shall come packaged in every K ration...