But scores of hospitals have been destroyed or damaged, medical supplies are scarce, and bread and diesel sell for many times the official price.
Job openings on the nation's college campuses are scarce, while bread-and-butter courses like the Origins of War and American Foreign Policy are dropping from history department postings.
Most struggling citizens wait for hours in long lines to buy scarce gasoline or bread.
Food, particularly bread, is scarce.
Crowds throng bakeries, where bread is scarce not for lack of flour but because the Egyptians who ran them are gone.
On occasion these poor, in Florence as all over Italy, rioted when bread was scarce, but they were normally powerless to organize efficiently against guilds and governments both of which could impose extreme penalties on anyone who defied their authority.
As bread became scarce in the shops and salaries went unpaid, many also began blaming the protesters for provoking chaos.The regime hangs onWith his police in disgrace, Mr Mubarak sent in his army and decreed what only weeks before would have been seen as a radical change.
Since late November, bread has been scarce, with a lack of fuel and flour shutting most bakeries in Aleppo.
Moaz said the attacks were reminiscent of a spate of airstrikes and artillery attacks on bakeries, which are among the few places that people congregate in war-torn cities, where bread is typically scarce.
When bear meat was scarce, meals sometimes consisted of only bread, butter, biscuits, and water.
Why look for higher wages if they would only make jobs more scarce and raise the price of bread?
