Word: woe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the recession hit later in California than in most states, it is making up in punch what it lacked in punctuality. One reason is an economic woe that California's taxpayers brought upon themselves. As low growth and high unemployment ate into projected tax revenues, Proposition 13, a statewide measure passed in 1978 that limits local property taxes, forced the state government to bail out towns, counties and school districts suddenly strapped for cash. The state is also doling out welfare checks to 2,233,507 Californians this year. The result: replacement of the state's once...
...Mokena, Ill., hovered anxiously over the bed of their three-month-old son Jonathan, watching his sudden and unexplained fever rise steadily higher. Three years later, Jonathan was dead of a rare and incurable form of colitis, leaving his emotionally shattered parents to face an equally catastrophic economic woe: a staggering $400,000 in medical bills incurred in the futile fight to save their...
...China: Alive in the Bitter Sea shifts from one snippet of life to another, Butterfield's sad image of the country becomes clearer. But the book is far from disjointed. Each anecdote of woe, each unfortunate experience, each tale of persecution fleshes out Butterfield's vision of official happy China's less appealing underside. More importantly, several significant themes reverberate throughout the work and color the reader's perceptions of this mammoth country...
...read with interest your story on CARP's new campaign to woe Harvard students out of their immoral love nests and into Rev. Sun Myung Moons outstretched arms. Our eyes widened the most though, at CARP's methods and at the organization's new campus leader, Richard Panzer...
Ezra is the dreamer who nurtures the novel's most enduring illusion. He runs a restaurant as if his soups and stews could cure loneliness and disappointment. The permutations of food and woe inspire him: "Why not a restaurant full of refrigerators, where people came and chose the food they wanted? . . . Or maybe he could install a giant fireplace, with a whole steer turning slowly on a spit. You'd slice what you liked onto your plate and sit around in armchairs eating and talking with the guests at large. Then again, maybe he would start serving only...