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The rations provided by the finca were not enough for subsistence, making workers dependent on the over-priced company store (tienda de raya) for food.
Waiting lists may be a misleading indicator of performance, although symbolic of rationing in a wider sense.
The more material questions about resources, rationing and priority setting are passed on to the 'empowered' clinicians and managers responsible for delivering services.
The tone of the case managers' rationing often communicated a damaging sense of personal erasure.
He argues that while rationing is inevitable under conditions of physical scarcity, there are alternatives when funding is the main issue.
Elderly people's accounts of home care rationing : missing voices in longterm care policy debates.
Perhaps the deportees previously received ordinary bread rations that went bad during the journey, whereas hardtack was supposed to keep well.
Corporate competitions again flourished as a way for corporations to maintain a public image when products were rationed and taken off the market.
In finer detail, rationing, as a ' social technology', involved fine-tuning the subjectivity of the recipient (and, by extension, their relations with the provider) as individuals.
The outcome of rationing can only be described as ' fair ' if it is consistent with social values.
The island continually flipflops from water rationing for over a million of its inhabitants to flooding that causes millions of dollars' worth of property loss.
In our setting, another case of interest is that in which the other goods are rationed ex ante but are chosen optimally upon residential relocation.
They worked in isolation, with poor accommodation and rations, exposed to a range of diseases, and were relatively poorly paid.
More often, they were not paid at all, just given poor quality rations and cast-off clothes.
The latter formulation most overtly "rations" scarce services, and this genre of guidelines is the topic of our analysis.
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ration

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daily ration
Or, game secured as they went along could replace part of the dailyration, enabling the preserved food to last longer than planned.
emergency ration
They lead a harassed life dealing with customers' ration books, emergencyration cards, weekly returns, points, and that kind of thing.
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