As the system gathered momentum, the ordinary ration came to encompass meat, cheese, butter, margarine, bacon and ham, tea, preserves, sugar and cooking fats such as lard.

BBC: The toast sandwich and other hyper-cheap meals

The model that Mr Smith cooked up at Yale, based on a hub-and-spoke system of overnight air delivery, has since expanded to encompass a broad portfolio of businesses contributing to efficient supply chains.

ECONOMIST: Face value

The five stories in the play Amajuba are intensely personal, but at the same time they encompass the experience of millions of black South Africans living under the apartheid system, which officially ended in 1994.

NPR: Play Captures Life Under South African Apartheid

An alternative approach, which has been called system-wide or macroprudential oversight, would broaden the mandate of regulators and supervisors to encompass consideration of potential systemic risks and weaknesses as well.

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