In Harare, cars, trucks and buses have had to wait over three hours to buy a ration of 20 litres (four gallons).
Like its Basque counterpart, however, CiU is likely to be tempted as much by a greater ration of self-government than by another tranche of economic reform.
"This clearly presents the coalition partners with a huge responsibility with which the dropping of a few thousand ration packs is wholly inadequate, " Davison said.
"She was the 173rd visitor, and our ship's number is 173, " he later explained over a lunch of C ration rice and meat.
After her mother-in law died, Ms. Colvin was going through papers and found a war ration coupon and a baseball card with the name of Henry Reccius.
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Still, this is a way to raise money for economic development at a time when Chicago's ration of federal money for such projects has fallen by 56% since 1980.
Generalised subsidies are being replaced with carefully directed ones: for instance, some 1.5m of the poorest families can get a free tortilla ration by swiping cards through an electronic reader at their local tortilleria, where previously the height of technology was the gas-powered tortilla-squashing machine.
In the nineteen-eighties, a carton of Double Happiness cigarettes was enough to secure a job transfer or the ration coupon for a washing machine.
Employees, Martingale notes, rejected health maintenance organizations as a way to ration care, and employers are rightfully leery of the other alternative--government rationing.
Which would certainly be a valid way of dealing with it: if you have to ration then rationing by price is indeed the most efficient manner of doing so.
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Their ration book can feed the family of three for only 10-15 days a month, he says.
Ann Robinson, of price comparison website Uswitch said some customers could ration their energy usage as a result.
The logic of a penalty discount rate is that the Fed prefers to let the rate structure ration Federal Reserve credit rather than having to do so administratively.
But the focus is now on smart cards, which would ration subsidised petrol to a few litres a week, with excess consumption being paid for at the cost of imports.
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