"For the Government, there's nothing better than a drought in an election year, because emergency food baskets mean votes," said Jaime Amorim, a local leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement who has been organizing the drought victims looting supermarkets here in Pernambuco State, about 1,600 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro.
Because of their high nutritional content, pulses are a staple in emergency food baskets.
The nets would be used if astronauts need to evacuate the launch pad in an emergency: they hop in little baskets and slide into the nets.
During my mother's last years, when there were emergencies, I was always a basket case for the first hour or so.
I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, among other duties, I was responsible for handing out those "baskets of money" under the Commander's Emergency Response Program, also known as CERP.
People speak instead of an "industry of hunger," with emergency aid traditionally being used by local politicians, who dole out baskets of rice, beans, pasta and salt in exchange for support, or who simply divert drought money for other uses.
French explains about a clean-up emergency 3 summers ago, where they took new steps like more wastepaper baskets, nighttime workers and more machinery.
A laundry-basket escape lands Sir John in the Thames, and an emergency disguise as an old fortuneteller results in his being beaten by an enraged Ford.
The Rockets' Carl Landry was taken to an emergency room for treatment after breaking several teeth in a second-quarter collision near the basket with Nowitzki and missed the second half.
Countries hold the special drawing rights — an i.o.u. with a value based on a basket of major currencies — as reserves and can tap them in case of an emergency.
