Word: lias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again last week, Brazil was at the brink. Part of its enormous $90 billion foreign debt was coming due, and the country had no way to pay. A team of tightfisted negotiators from the International Monetary Fund was in the capital city of Brasília demanding that in exchange for new loans the government had to curb its spending and cool inflation, which reached an annual rate of 180% during the first half of the year. Meanwhile, Brazilians, incensed by austerity measures already taken, were striking and taking to the streets...
Reported by Charles Thurston/São Paulo and Frederick Ungeheuer/Brasília...
Peasants of the steep Mourgana region, the northwest roof of Greece, were horrified by the pedomasoma, but they were battered and half-starved by a decade of war, and few had the strength or cunning to resist. One who did was Eleni Gatzoyiannis of the little farm hamlet Lia. Though she had spent her life deferring to her father, a prosperous miller, and to her husband, a cook at a diner in far-off America who returned periodically to visit, Eleni was transformed by crisis into a leader: she organized the escape of 20 people of Lia, most of them...
Eleni was beautiful and eventually outspoken, but she was not a feminist, not even a matriarch. She was a country woman, brought up to a life of ceaseless, selfless duty to men and her elders. Wedding ceremonies in Lia traditionally included a moment when the groom stamped on the bride's toes to establish his dominance; on wedding nights, brides in Lia customarily slept with their mothers-in-law rather than their husbands, as a symbolic lesson in obedience to the new clan. Eleni scarcely thought of leaving her rigid culture until it began to shatter violently around...
...wife Mary, whom he married in 1956, is the daughter of an Irish Catholic plumber. She was a receptionist at a Ford sales office in Chester, Pa., when the couple met at a Ford conference in Philadelphia in 1948. They have two daughters, Lia, 18, a student at a Michigan college, and Kathi, 23, a recent Middlebury (Vt.) College graduate who is a Washington public relations account executive. lacocca and his daughters are close; he usually stays in Kathi's guest bedroom during his frequent trips to the capital...