rations

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“There were hundreds of women in the street, the factory staff was allowing only a few of them at a time to collect rations,” she said.

From Seattle Times

Tokitae was given meager rations, fed rotten fish and forced to do high-energy jumps and tricks despite a jaw injury from fast swims, the report stated.

From Seattle Times

At other prisons, inmates were crowded together and have seen their food rations reduced.

From Seattle Times

The closures also made it harder for smugglers to supply goods to the North’s unofficial markets, where ordinary people get extra food when its moribund rations system can no longer provide.

From New York Times

The drop in rations comes at the end of a particularly harsh, deadly winter when many families have depleted their food stores and before the next harvest season around May.

From Reuters