Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challenge of remaking Peru has taken a toll on Vargas Llosa's writing. Aside from a brief erotic novel, In Praise of My Stepmother (1989), a book that Vargas Llosa considers a "diversion" and in which he devotes rapturous pages to the joys of a woman's bottom, he has written very little during the past two years. He considers this curtailment of his vocation as a "contribution to emergency times." Says he: "When you are in a situation like Peru's today, you can't change it with a novel or a poem...
Furthermore, prosperous Asian-American families are not immune to fragmentation, even among the Koreans, who are perhaps the most entrepreneurial of the new immigrants. Long hours at the store and the office have taken their toll. The all-consuming work ethic has robbed some Korean youths of parental supervision and, by extension, a sense of identity. Says Youngbin Kim, program coordinator for the Korean Youth Center in Los Angeles: "We see a lot of problems with identity and self-esteem. These kids look Korean, but they don't want to be Korean. They only sense that they are Asian...
...fire could have been prevented. After a 1988 social-club fire killed six people, Mayor Edward Koch created ten inspection teams to shut down offending clubs. But budgetary pressure and complacency quickly took their toll, as they seem to with most public services in the city. By the time Happy Land burned, only two inspection teams were left...
...repairing America's crumbling roads and easing airport congestion is almost silent on how to pay for what it recommends. Where it is specific, the plan proposes new or additional "user fees" and surcharges for air travelers and new authority for states to turn federally financed highways into toll roads. Translation: Bush wants to improve Americans' mobility, but he would prefer that local politicians raise the funds needed to break the transportation gridlock...
...find. The widening rift between Havana and Moscow has caused other deprivations. The Soviet Union's increasing unwillingness -- or inability -- to continue carrying the Cuban economy has created severe shortages of flour, bread, razor blades and TV sets. The long-standing U.S. trade embargo continues to take its toll as well...