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...Lula has said that Brazil will import rice and beans from abroad to prevent food shortages....
...Full exemptions were granted for health services and basic foodstuffs such as rice and beans, among others....
...Qassem, the Americans believe, plans to assassinate US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice....
...In the 12 months to the end of March, the price of rice increased 64 per cent and black beans 51 per cent....
...Former US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau associate director Bryan Schneider has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as a partner in Chicago....
...Reed Smith and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner are among those to have launched redundancy rounds in recent weeks....
...Like North Korea, Vietnam, with its large agriculture sector, began with reforms that allowed farmers to work their own rice fields and sell products directly to the market....
...It is easy to forget that just decades ago the entire area was rice paddies....
...with Oscar Pistorious, the South African Paralympian convicted of killing his girlfriend, Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino boxer who made homophobic comments, Lance Armstrong, the cycling drug cheat, and Ray Rice...
...The drink is made from ginseng and scorched rice, apparently. (The Guardian)...
...But its fortunes have since faded, prompting a wave of diversification spanning smart rice cookers and air purifiers....
...(Ars Technica) A $718k crystal ball Niall Rice was a successful, well-travelled professional with close to seven figures in the bank....
...About 150kg of the 4,200kg rice dish was found to be inedible, according to a Guinness World Records spokesperson....
...(NYT) End of the rice age As Japan’s population ages, appetites are shrinking, with the country now eating about 20 per cent less rice than it did two decades ago....
...Lawrence Bryan, chief executive, says it is vital that consumers know what they are buying. “We say very clearly when it’s made in England and when it is made in China.”...
...In 2012, they sold 60 per cent of their stake to US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice for £1bn, and cashed in again, along with younger brother Robin, when the business floated in 2014....
Signs bauxite sales ban is having an effect on Chinese producers
...Back in 1900, at the height of the Boer war, Colonel Bryan Mahon led a 1,000-strong British column to relieve the town, which was surrounded by Afrikaner insurgents....
...After wheat and rice, potato is the third most important food crop. By 2020 it is estimated that more than 2bn people worldwide will depend on potato for food, animal feed, or income....
...Edited extract from ‘Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco’ (1990) by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar (Arrow £9.99)....
...Bryan Hymel is able to summon the heft for Don José, but the basic sound of his bright tenor with its fast vibrato is unappealing....
...English mezzo-soprano Christine Rice is the gypsy temptress of the title; Bryan Hymel and Aris Argiris, as Don José and Escamillo, compete for her attention....
...She may be the most substantive politician in the office since William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate who served as secretary almost a century ago....
...Message Such numbers may be in the future for Bryan Smith and Irene Susantio, who graduated from Wharton this spring after winning their school’s business plan contest, open to students across the University...
...Bryan Whitman, Pentagon spokesman, said the defence department had done no planning for a Sudan mission....
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