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rationing ['ræʃənɪŋ]

n. 定量配给

[经] 限额配给

rationing

[ noun ]
the act of rationing
<noun.act>
during the war the government imposed rationing of food and gasoline

They believe that Ceausescu's energy and food rationing should be just a bad memory, banished with the toppling and execution of the Stalinist dictator and his wife, and the plans to create a Western-style democracy.
Water rationing has deepened awareness that the state's natural water supplies no longer can keep pace.
The result is that U.S. officials now believe that Iraq will have enough wheat and rice for four months of normal human consumption, and that rationing and belt-tightening could stretch those supplies another month or so.
The storms have damped the water panic that swept California in recent weeks, as reservoirs disappeared and cities all over the state adopted or proposed Draconian rationing systems.
Medical rationing looms as a dominant health care issue of the 1990s, as Americans realize after decades of revolutionary medical advances that there are no miracles, just hard choices.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the end of coffee rationing.
We had been rationing liquid since the fourth day at sea because we had inadvertently dumped three-quarters of the fresh water from our tanks, and now we found that some of our bottles of emergency water had cracked.
Mayor Tom Bradley has lobbied for a mandatory water conservation program that would impose rationing if residents fail to reduce their consumption by 10 percent below 1986 levels.
It's really scary," said Billy Marr, head of the Tuolumne County Water System, in the Sierra Nevada, which is considering rationing.
In San Francisco, water officials later this month will propose rationing steps aimed at cutting consumption 50%.
In a surprise move, Iraq said Sunday it is halting gasoline rationing imposed earlier in response to global economic sanctions. The Soviets said their latest diplomatic effort to settle the Persian Gulf crisis has apparently failed.
Extensive rationing of basic consumer goods accompanied the price controls, and the combined effects resulted in massive "forced savings" that helped finance the war effort.
The mandatory rationing plan calls for a 10% reduction in water consumption from 1986 levels beginning March 1, and a 15% reduction by May 1.
It did not say when the rationing went into effect or how long it would be in force.
He one of the five motors would be installed by Friday morning and would begin distributing water to the capital on a rationing basis.
Grain production hit a record of 407 million tons in 1984 but since has declined, causing shortages of livestock feed and pork rationing.
Food already is being rationed in several Soviet cities and rationing is to begin next month in Leningrad, the nation's second-largest city.
However, there was concern over power rationing which could harm industry's productivity.
If insurance rates start to soften, such measures might be necessary as early as 1996. Yet rationing the aggregate capacity of Lloyd's would only be a partial solution.
The interim leadership has stopped food exports and redirected supplies to the nation's 23 million people, who endured rationing for years as part of Ceausescu's successful plan to repay the foreign debt.
Authorities have imposed rationing after reports of panic buying of textiles in Shanghai and salt in 19 other areas.
The company said production was expected to resume on Monday. In France, petrol rationing started at some filling stations in Paris, Toulouse, Saint-Etienne and Lyons.
The government indicated it will start rationing the sale of some basic foods in the next few days.
"There is money out there, and we as pediatricians need to become spokesmen to get the money out there rather than throw in the towel and start rationing health care," he said.
"Spending won't take off again until 1995 or 1996." Even big spenders such as Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., are rationing 1991 R&D dollars.
There are shortages everywhere of basic consumer goods and food items, and many regions have gone to rationing or limiting sales to those who can prove local residence.
The rationing program will depend on public cooperation, and the only penalities will be increased rates for excessive use and possible installation of flow restrictors for big wasters, said Cooney.
Lithuanian lawmakers decided today to impose food rationing on May 1 as the rebellious republic continued to struggle under an economic blockade that has reduced its supplies of fuel and medicine.
Leningrad will introduce food rationing as of Saturday.
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley said he has not decided whether to impose mandatory rationing citywide, hoping voluntary reductions will meet the limits.

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