Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coincidence of openings is only the tip of a thematic iceberg. A sampling of plots from the eight stories not fitting that particular pattern reveal some of its contours...
From this foundation, the novel moves to examine more fully the entire realm of female experience, from marriage to childbirth and death, from contentment to rage and guilt. The struggles, however, are not those of the girls, but of their grandmother. The girls reveal her hardships, from poverty and disastrous marriage to the sudden wealth which allowed her to buy the farm. Lil Krauss's five daughters, May, Elinor, Libby, Grace and Rachel, also come alive through the narrators; the startling distinctions amongst them, the subtle tensions, and their relationships with their husbands are brought to light under the granddaughters...
...some 20,000 Viet Nam veterans and their relatives against Dow Chemical and four other companies that manufactured Agent Orange. One of the substances present in the herbicide, used in the Viet Nam War to defoliate enemy crops and jungle hiding places, is the dangerous chemical dioxin. The documents reveal that Dow officials had knowledge even before the mid-1960s that exposure to dioxin might cause people to become seriously ill. Even so, the company continued to sell herbicides containing dioxin...
Court documents reveal manufacturers knew dioxin's perils
Hodsoll maintained that the book dealt with routine policy issues and did not reveal strategy. But Stockman, who impersonated Carter in a rehearsal debate with Reagan, said that its "advocacy point of view" was "useful as I prepared outlines of possible answers representing the 'other side...