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  1. Rations

    Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time. There are many forms of rationing, although rationing by price is most prevalent.: 8–12 Rationing is often done to keep price below the market-clearing price determined by the process of supply and demand in an unfettered market. Thus, rationing can be complementary to price controls. An example of rationing in the face of rising prices took place in the various countries where there was rationing of gasoline during the 1973 energy crisis. A reason for setting the price lower than would clear the market may be that there is a shortage, which would drive the market price very high. High prices, especially in the case of necessities, are undesirable with regard to those who cannot afford them. Traditionalist economists argue, however, that high prices act to reduce waste of the scarce resource while also providing incentive to produce more. Rationing using ration stamps is only one kind of non-price rationing. For example, scarce products can be rationed using queues. This is seen, for example, at amusement parks, where one pays a price to get in and then need not pay any price to go on the rides. Similarly, in the absence of road pricing, access to roads is rationed in a first come, first served queueing process, leading to congestion. Authorities which introduce rationing often have to deal with the rationed goods being sold illegally on the black market. Despite the fact that rationing systems are sometimes necessary as the only viable option for societies facing severe consumer goods shortages, they are usually extremely unpopular with the general public, as they enforce limits on individual consumption.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rations in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rations in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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  1. Major Hodges:

    If you go at minimum rations of one meal a day, we were looking at numbers about 1800 meals that we needed to get in there, so, there was not the physical space in the cave to put 1800 meals and that would be 18 separate dive missions. Some of the rescued soccer team members bowing their heads respectfully in front of a sketch of the Thai NavySEAL Facebook Page SEAL diver who died while trying to rescue them. ( Thailand's Ministry of Health and the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital via AP).

  2. Mohamed Anyis:

    We shared scarce food rations and helped the weakest men together.

  3. Baja California:

    We are taking preventive measures, rations, gasoline, all supplies are guaranteed. There is no need for panic buying.

  4. Susan Sontag:

    We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

  5. Darin Friedrichs:

    It’s hard to see how this changes anything. If it was economical to switch to barley and rapeseed meal for rations, then firms would have already done it, the volume of soybeans the U.S. can load in a single day is larger than the yearly global export volume of cottonseed meal.

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