The priority was to get as much food and medicine as we could onto the pallets and into the bundles we were loading on our aircraft and airdropping.
Under his plan, as food and medicine gets more expensive, your Social Security check would grow only a tiny bit.
Both the FTC and the FDA have set their sights on food advertising claims of health benefits and disease prevention in the past year, saying that too many companies have been marketing food as if it were medicine.
Venezuela said it was sending a military plane with food, medicine and drinking water, as well as a team of 50 rescue workers.
The report defines destitution as "the lack of regular access to essential resources such as food, clothing, toiletries, medicine and a place to live".
In the meantime, the UN does allow Iraq to export oil to pay for imports of food and medicine (an arrangement known as oil-for-food), although it keeps control of the finances.
Mr Bush signed an executive order that imposes a swathe of economic sanctions (excluding food and medicine) against Syria , as a punishment for its alleged support of terrorism and for trying to undermine American policy in Iraq.
While the FBI has largely been tight-lipped about how it monitored Dykes' behavior and mood in the days leading up to the rescue, the latest revelations suggest authorities were dealing with an abductor fully prepared for more violence even as he allowed police to send food, medicine and toys into the bunker for the boy.
Shortages of most essentials such as electricity, fuel, medicine and food have become common in Zimbabwe.
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Long before Hippocrates advised "Let food be your medicine, " garlic was prized as much for its curative powers as for its flavor.
"Cash allows people to spend as they chose, whether it's on food or medicine, or many of them accumulate debt at local stores and use this money to repay part of it, which enables them to keep borrowing, " says Oxfam media officer Caroline Gluck.
Mr Ging said humanitarian organisations were deeply frustrated as they were ready to deploy with large stocks of food and medicine.
Or, as his Haitian patients aptly put it, medicine without food is like washing one's hands and drying them in the dirt.
Along with mandatory national standards, the Institute of Medicine is recommending voluntary reductions by the food industry and urging government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise and update nutrition labels.
Nordic countries, for example, are already worrying that next winter, as in this one, they will find their sleeves being tugged for fuel, food and medicine by local governments in impoverished towns in Russia's desperate far north.
The U.N. created the oil-for-food program as a loophole in post-Gulf War sanctions, allowing Iraq to sell oil so Baghdad could purchase food, medicine and other humanitarian needs.
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