Not wanting to reduce their living standards, people in the bread basket states borrowed.

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The brunt of the storm hit Myanmar's delta region, the country's bread basket.

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The soldiers said they were acting under orders from Major Dan Taylor, who was in charge of Camp Bread Basket.

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Sit down to order with a server arriving in precisely one minute upon sitting. 4 minutes later, the bread basket has arrived.

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First, its brought jobs to the bread basket states, where agribusiness dominates.

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Parts of Kansas were paralyzed in February under a blanket of snow, but it brought needed moisture to drought regions in the nation's bread basket.

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"The Jordan Valley... has the potential to be the Palestinian bread basket, yet restrictions on Palestinians use of land, water, and on building in the valley are keeping them poor while helping nearby Israeli settlements thrive, " it adds.

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And as America became the global-bread-basket, overall employment grew.

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