Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When times were relatively prosperous, most of the 50 million Filipinos tolerated martial law. But like many developing countries, the Philippines was hit hard by the worldwide economic slowdown and the prolonged slump in commodity prices. As the pie shrank, so did public tolerance for repression. Inexorably, the radical left, a negligible force when Marcos took power, gained strength...
...well in order to perpetuate the plusher segments of the economy. And with frustrated hopes for economic advancement, so too many of the legal gains of the civil rights movement seem to wither in the face of supply side and survival of the fittest. With a shrinking economic pie, hard fought affirmative action plans are flooding the courts...
...trip progresses, things begin to go wrong. Chevy falls asleep at the wheel, the crew get lost in the middle on the desert, they lose all their money, and what was once a peaceful journey through the land of Mom, apple pie and Chevrolet degenerates into "a quest...
...supermarkets in the Midwest and Southern California, as many as 250 items can be bought in bulk, including flour sugar, mixes for cakes and breads, pie fillings, dried beans, rice, pasta and spices. Containers for the products are very different from the cracker barrels that were found in general stores at the turn of the century. Many of the new ones have sanitized liners and clear plastic tops...
More seriously, the ugly side effects of economic hardship are still brewing throughout the country. The underlying hatred and prejudice which often plague race relations, and which are always exacerbated when groups fight over a limited pie, came out in especially bitter form in Chicago, where Democrat Harold Washington almost lost his party the mayoralty for the first time in five decades, simply because he was Black. And even the potential recovery on the horizon will not be for everyone, as the mass migration to the Sunbelt continues, while the cities of the industrial Northeast and Midwest are left...