Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because troubled times have endured in other forms, and partly because he has always had qualities that go beyond the flying fists. He was orphaned, and thus forced to rely on himself, just like Little Orphan Annie or Huck Finn. He is a foreigner from outer space in a land built by foreigners. And he is one of the good guys, fighting for "truth, justice and the American way," which seems to many people a very good thing to do. Superman's violence is never cruel, however; he punches villains but rarely does them any real harm. His greatest powers...
...from the creek named Scorched Lime in the northern slums of Manila lies a settlement called Happy Land. The name notwithstanding, Happy Land is neither happy nor on land. A collection of lean-tos patched together from plastic, cardboard, plywood and scrap metal, Happy Land is built on stilts above the black waters of a sewage canal. Flies buzz around empty tin cans and wastepaper in the water below, as Happy Landers catwalk across the planks that lead from shack to shack. Inside cramped quarters, men play cards or sleep on chairs padded with rags; women boil rice on mottled...
...uprising they call the People Power revolution. But little of a revolutionary nature has occurred in the two years since the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. Even as more parkland is being cleared for the well-heeled dead, life continues to balance on stilts over the brackish waters of Happy Land, a place of aching poverty and little hope...
...hopes of the revolution, the Aquino aura remains intact. Mira concedes that nothing has changed since Aquino came to power. "But Cory is better than Imelda," she says, referring to Marcos' once powerful wife. Last year, Mira recalls, Aquino came to within a five-minute jeepney ride of Happy Land to inspect garbage collection. "Imelda never visited this place...
...board was ready to approve it, but some legal issues had to be cleared up in regard to parking," said Lester W. Barber, director of land use and zoning for Cambridge Community Development. "Overall, the prognosis for the proposal is good for the next meeting [on March...