Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downturn has stoked social unrest in a country already notorious for its extremes of wealth and poverty. Half the population receives only 12.6% of the national income. By contrast, the richest 10% get 51% of the income. Most laid-off workers are receiving no more than one month's severance pay, and the government provides no unemployment benefits. In April, thousands of laid-off metalworkers shouting, "Queremos empregado!" (We want employment), stormed through the streets of São Paulo, looting shops and supermarkets...
Brazil is still a country rich in resources. Since the mid-1970s, huge new deposits of iron, manganese, nickel, copper, bauxite and gold have been discovered deep in the Amazon basin. To exploit this mineral wealth, the Brazilians have launched a mammoth development scheme, called the Carajas Project, that includes dozens of mines, a 550-mile railroad and a giant dam on an arm of the Amazon, all to be completed by 1990. The cost will be staggering: $61 billion. But the eventual income from the project, estimated at $14.6 billion annually, may be worth the initial expense...
...time it was as though the four of us were one and we lived in days that gathered into one stream of time, undifferentiated and communal" Together they play and grow, all the while watching the lives around them from a single perspective. The daughters present a wealth of experience with the complexity of feelings that are not fully understood. They explain,"...for what we knew of the family was disclosed to us by our being there to see it happen. We had to remain as inarticulate as the mantling walls, silent and watchful--outside the action...
...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' watchful eyes. When the illness...
...title is dreaming and distant and just right. In the rolling land of northern Ohio, during the middle years of the 20th century, a woman of no previous wealth inherited a hatful of money, bought a big house and some farm land and assumed matriarchal ways. This was Gram, who had five daughters and, though no one seemed to think the fact very important, a husband. Her style was regal-she would stomp out at night to play bingo whenever she felt like it-and her son-in-law Dan the butcher called her the Queen of Persia. She sheltered...