Protesters and the police have set up competing checkpoints, schools are closed, gasoline stations have no fuel, cash machines are empty and there are daily encounters between tear-gas-lobbing police officers and demonstrators.
Statoil, the fossil fuel cash cow that made Norway the world's seventh richest country, won a $42.5 million bid last Friday to lease 79,350 acres of federal waters starting roughly 14 miles off the coast of Long Island.
Mr. Jalili is in Damascus meeting with officials from the Syrian government, which Iran is supporting with arms, fuel and cash.
Indeed, several provocations were followed by blandishments — rewards, in effect — in the form of food, fuel and cash from North Korea's risk-averse adversaries in Seoul and Washington.
And because the VW diesel can easily surpass its official E.P.A. ratings, those figures probably undersell the actual fuel and cash savings.
Mali's air and land borders have been sealed since late Wednesday; food, fuel and cash are all running low; banks are closed, as are many stores".
Mr Hadi may hope that Yemen's wealthy Gulf neighbours will send money to help avert an economic meltdown, but they have not provided significant support to Yemen since Saudi Arabia gave $3 billion in fuel and cash in 2012.
The decision to raise interest rates is one of a number of emergency measures taken by the regime in recent weeks, including the rationing of fuel, restricting cash withdrawals from banks, increasing public sector pay by 50% and doubling pensions.
But so far the government has stopped short of replacing the direct distribution of food and fuel with cash payments because of the enormous logistical difficulties involved, and because many of those involved in pilot projects in which cash was substituted for goods have said they preferred receiving food.
North Korea watchers have long assumed that although Kim Jong Il and his regime may behave in ways we don't always understand, they are rational actors negotiating craftily to get what they need to stay in power: food, fuel and cash.
Both presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush trod this same slippery path, providing Kim with nuclear payoffs over the years that have amounted to massive handouts of food, fuel, hard cash and diplomatic concessions.
