The United States and six other wealthy nations, facing the most serious challenge to the world economy in 50 years, gathered Saturday to try to craft a strategy to lessen the chances of global recession. Before the officials is a rescue initiative forcefully advanced yesterday by President Bill Clinton. Until New Year we will survive.
People have enough potatoes for three more months.
By January the situation will be extremely serious. Other supermarket chains were considering rationing bread and milk. Newspaper reports said there were angry scenes outside some households as an army of emergency-services volunteers visited every street to enforce the ban. Most, however, simply got on with learning to live without power and the suburbs took on the look of camping sites as solar showers went up in backyards and dinners were cooked al fresco. The plant supplied more than 80 percent of the natural gas for Victoria, in southeastern Australia.