Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deference they continue to grant to their charismatic but inept President. After these many months of near-depression, and long after David Stockman's public admission that the President's "economic recovery program" was merely a blind and cyncial "Trojan Horse" to sell upward redistribution of income and wealth to the masses, those masses continue to believe that miracles will result from swallowing this bitter potion...
...government losing its ability to meet the demands placed upon it by various segments of society. Piven and Cloward, who see democracy principally as a means for working class advances, answer a tentative "yes" to this question when they predict a new mass movement for redistribution of power and wealth...
...have traditionally valued mercy because it is only through the mercy of the strong that the victims of the diaspora can survive. But the diaspora is no longer. Israel exists and fights, not relying on the mercy of its neighbors for its life. And the neoconservatives represent men of wealth and power in this country who likewise seem to have lost any need for mercy. It is a grim view, but Shorris doubts the Jews' ability to retain sensitivity to moral considerations after achieving a degree of material and political success...
...certain subtle ways, it might be argued that women may have succeeded too well. Their hopes have been so frequently dramatized and debated that they have turned into cliches of fiction before they have become matters of fact. The abundance of persuasive re-examination and the wealth of fine writing that have come from this woman's decade?Anne Tyler and Gail Godwin, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joyce Eliason, Ann Beattie and Elizabeth Hardwick and, yes, Joan Didion?have created a consciousness that is both more aware and a little restless, a little reckless, even, about mistaking gains for guarantees...
Despite its oil wealth, Mexico remains a country of horrendous economic contrasts, now made worse by oil-boom inflation and the rising expectations of its middle and working classes. The bottom 20% of the Mexican population is worse off, in real economic terms, than it was in 1977. Approximately 50% of the population is undernourished, according to one study. What is more, the real challenge has yet to hit the country. By the turn of the century, U.S. analysts estimate, the population will have grown by nearly 50%, to about 100 million. The country needs to create 800,000 jobs...