Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Proving legal responsibility and collecting damages in such cases are difficult, and Latimer has had no luck. Nor, so far, has Christina Locek, 42, of River Grove, Ill., a onetime professional ice skater and pianist who says her health was destroyed in 1985 when a lawn-care service sprayed her neighbor's yard. Her cat and dog died the same day, she says, and she continues to suffer partial paralysis, substantial vision loss, headaches and blood disorders. Another woman told the Senate subcommittee that she sometimes slept in her car to avoid lawn spraying in her neighborhood...
...Francisco girlhood with mystical tales of female warriors and monkey kings, Asian Americans were the invisible men and women in American literature. Even after Kingston's success, a dozen years passed before another Asian-American fiction writer achieved fortune and fame. First-time novelist Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, a loosely connected series of stories about Chinese-American mothers and daughters, sold an astonishing 275,000 hard-cover copies. Publishers took note, and this spring brings not only Tan's second novel, The Kitchen God's Wife, but also splendid debuts by three other Chinese-American writers...
...keep close company. Two years ago Tan was just another struggling, unpublished, 37-year-old writer, making up brochures for computer companies while composing stories on the side. By the end of 1989 she was the author of the most admired novel on the best-seller list, her Joy Luck Club having conquered critics and the public alike. A literary star had been born overnight -- and, in her wake, a fairy tale's difficult postscript: How could she ever live up to what felt like a once-in-a-lifetime success...
...pages; $22.95), one's apprehensions begin to gather like avenging furies: the opening pages introduce us to a young Chinese-American woman, her all-American husband and her inalienably Chinese mother, living around San Francisco -- precisely the contemporary scene that made up the least transporting parts of The Joy Luck Club. For two chapters the young woman tells a pleasant but unremarkable tale of sweet-and-sour tensions, haunted by her nagging mother -- and by her nagging sense that her mother and she are speaking different languages. Then, on page 61, the mother takes over, and suddenly the book takes...
What does a lender do with a foreclosed hotel? With luck he sells it fast and gets his money back; banks and S&Ls have no desire to run these properties. But buyers are hard to find nowadays. "The market to purchase hotels is dead," says Morris Lasky, chief executive of Lodging Unlimited, a firm based in West Chester, Pa., that specializes in turning around problem hotels. "Banks are not going to lend to new buyers, and there isn't anybody with cash to buy these things." Among the many anxious sellers is the government's Resolution Trust Corporation, which...