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Incorporate for the purpose of providing food rations sufficient to prevent all malnutrition diseases to all shareholders.

There are supervisory limits on what a bank can lend (leverage ratios, capital adequacy rations etc.).

He keeps too many emergency rations at his home for someone who isn't a Mormon.

George Washington's army pounded back quite a bit as part of their daily rations.

As they were cheap and easily available due to being standard in a pack of rations, they ended up being used for...

I have rations for a couple of days, but it's hard to drink while hanging upside down by straps.

I studied many a/b tests on the impact of photos and other elements on conversion rations.

It was the minimum amount of sheet metal wrapped around just barely enough of a cutting surface to open a can of C rations.

I decided to put together my own Iron Rations and make a game of it.

Back in the day, once the sun rose above the yardarm, the Royal Navy would start issuing the first of the rum rations for the day.

The kind originally made in Mesopotamia and given as rations to soldiers was much more nutritious than the kind we drink recreationally now.

And rations included copious chocolate for the passengers.

I don't drink as much coffee as I used to, but I suspect I'm in the ballpark of "surviving on Union rations".

> I don't believe that Snowden-like reveals put him in any more specific danger That's true only in the same way that sending half-rations to your soldiers on the front line instead of full rations doesn't put them in "more specific" danger.

Worth the price of admission: "Magellan, for example, lost eighty percent of the sailors on his Pacific voyage, and survivors described how 'to chew their rations, they had to keep slicing the swollen tissue of their gums away.'"

The problem I see is that it's vastly more expensive than building an off-world outpost and shipping rations there, as we do with Antarctica -- and our economic cost/benefit framework wouldn't show any obvious return on investment for self-sufficiency." I think this is what eventually acts as the great filter.