To make up for the difference, electricity had been rationed around the country, with Baghdad, as the seat of power, receiving a disproportionately large share and the rest of the country losing out.
According to Pyara Lal, the manager of Shahabpur's government ration shop, around a quarter of the village's BPL card-holders are relatively prosperous patels a consequence of the last two pradhans having come from that caste-group.Mr Lal, who is popularly considered to have the best job in Shahabpur, also admits to skimming off a share of the loot.
This is complemented by a family ration benefiting around 126,000 persons.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Sun; touring to 20 Jun Murray Perahia may be one of the finest pianists around, but he strictly rations his live dates.
Serfdom was all around him then: ration books, travel restrictions, the persistent shadow of wartime central planning, and most of all the depressing disposition of people to do what they were told and to suppose that this was modern life.
They cited a John Gottman study that found successful marriages maintain around a 5 1 ration of pleasant feelings to bad, whereas those with more like a 1 1 ration have a far greater chance of ending in divorce.
During this period, the official ration for islanders fell to around 1000 kcal per day – below the threshold identified as critical by researchers studying cohorts exposed to the Dutch famine [ 17].
Hurricane Sandy, a massive orgy of three separate weather systems, made us wait around, nervously eating half our rations before the bad stuff even started.
At the start of hostilities, hearty army rations high in protein meant that soldiers ate around 4,600 calories a day, compared with the working man's average intake of 3,400 – although rations dwindled as the war progressed and the size of the army increased, to the point that, by the end, soldiers would be lucky if they saw meat more than once a week.
