Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, hardly evokes the poetic resonance of the Golden Gate Bridge, its famous sister across the water to the west. And even though the Bay Bridge is six months older and, at 8 1/4 miles, almost four times as long as its glamorous relative, the span received only small change to celebrate its 50th birthday: $70,000, vs. a projected $6 million to be lavished on the Golden Gate next May. Still, the connection between the San Francisco peninsula and the East Bay, crossed by 250,000 autos a day, helped transform once distant...
...high-level span. Said John Kergel, 79, who worked on the project that took three years and 29 lives: "It was the Depression, guys would do anything for a job. We took a lot of chances. But it paid off." As for comparisons between the gray lady and her golden sister, one official said, "They're both beautiful bridges. What's important is that during the Great Depression people had the vision and gumption to build them...
This well-directed busyness is shared by Edith Langley, hero of Golden Days, who has awakened from the coma of two bad marriages with the understanding that a girl has got to hustle. This is how she did it: "I made myself up half hour by hour. I rented myself out to silicone chip places. I got myself a weekly financial column at the city's 'second' paper, which got me to parties, which got me to cute guys, which got me to some financial meetings of small businesses, and little by little I was able to build...
...assumptions of Golden Days is that testosterone is the most unstable element in the universe. When men, the sole possessors of penises and nuclear missiles, go wrong, the result is usually bad. See's holocaust is foreshadowed by a catalog of vague fears. The cause of the actual disaster is left unclear, although the reader has been prepared for its reason: the inevitability of male conflict. This is a stimulating and not unreasonable assertion, although it is not convincingly worked out as fiction. Neither is the author's romantic projection that the destruction is a new beginning that will eliminate...
...capital, low taxes and skilled labor. What is more, the targets in America are tantalizingly close across the 5,526-mile border. Although Canada is larger than the U.S., its economy is smaller than California's, and its population, at 25 million, is roughly the size of the Golden State's. Furthermore, 24% of the relatively small pool of Canadian assets is already owned by foreign investors. Americans alone own 45% of Canada's oil and gas industry and 29% of its manufacturing sector. Says Ted Zahavich, director of research for Investment Canada, a federal agency in Ottawa that fosters...