Word: ata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion a year to rebuild the nation's crumbling highways and bridges, and to aid mass transportation. Coupled with the rise in the tax on fuel are increases in taxes on truck parts, truck road use, and truck sales. From the point of view of the American Trucking Association (ATA)--the industry's major voice in Washington--it looked like a rather unpleasant bill of goods. Not being the kind of group to throw in the towel without a substantial show of muscle, the ATA conceded defeat only after wringing a very substantial concession from an overtired Congress...
...felt for the men she had been with in her own realm, but she knew it had been nothing like this. It was as if she were relinquishing light and air for bonds that tightened as she breathed, growing into her flesh." Suffering still, she bears Ben Ata...
...single problem: the birth rate among humans and animals has fallen off; a sense of sadness and stagnation envelops the lands. So the Providers who administer the galaxy issue an order that no one can refuse. Al∙Ith, the Queen of Zone Three, must marry Ben Ata, the warlike King of Zone Four...
Those who look for a feminist parable to begin at this point will be disap pointed. It is true that Al∙Ith is superior to Ben Ata; love between them cannot be achieved until he climbs and she falls. Yet Lessing's narrative imbues this war between the sexes with an urgent purpose, nothing else than the regeneration of life...
Both participants suffer. Ben Ata is slowly ennobled by contact with his bride, but at a cost of self-confidence. His once brutal decisiveness has been tempered by the uncertainties of reflection. Al∙Ith, experienced in the bloodless sex of her own zone, sinks into a passion and carnality as frightful to her as it is exhilarating...