Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sold at market rotted in the fields. More than half a million homeowners, unable to pay their mortgages, had lost their homes and their farms; thousands of banks had failed, destroying the life savings of millions. The Federal Government had virtually no mechanisms in place to provide relief...
Though the national economy remained in a depressed state until the war broke out, the massive programs of the New Deal had stopped the precipitous slide and provided an economic floor for tens of millions of Americans. "We aren't on relief anymore," one woman noted with pride. "My husband is working for the government." The despair that had hung over the land was lifted, replaced by a bustling sense of movement and activity, a renewed confidence in the future, a revived faith in democracy. "There is a mysterious cycle in human events," Roosevelt said when he accepted his party...
...Playa Yaguardabo to see her in-laws, 10 minutes up the road. We get there, and she's out. Condela stays put and seems perturbed--the back seat is not so big--when we welcome a young couple, Alexander and Yaineris, who bustle in, exhaling with relief. They have a chicken with them. A live chicken. Condela laughs at our surprise. The chicken is small and in a plastic bag--its red, confused little head poking out. Alexander and Yaineris are married, and have been visiting her parents; they're headed back home to Trinidad. The ocean...
DeAngelis remains fiercely optimistic. "There have been so many reasons for teachers to quit, for students to quit, for parents to be afraid to send their students here," he says. "But this is an outstanding high school." There was some relief at Columbine when authorities quickly arrested Michael Ian Campbell, 18, of Cape Coral, Fla., and charged him with sending the Internet threat. But DeAngelis also knows that April 20, 2000, is just around the corner. He is already working with a planning committee to make sure the anniversary is a memorial, not a flashback...
...hillsides. The left-leaning populist president warned that there would be no rebuilding of some of the worst-hit neighborhoods, and that people would be forbidden from building in areas vulnerable to mudslides. And while the former paratrooper has earned top marks for his hands-on supervision of relief efforts, his approach to rebuilding the country in the wake of its worst disaster this century may dent his overwhelming popularity among Venezuela's underclass...