land of plenty

During earlier court hearings, Uncle Paul had described his childhood memories of Saibai in the 1970s and 1980s when it was a "land of plenty", with an abundance of barramundi and crabs in inland freshwater swamps.

Hamilton wanted to transform it into a diversified industrial land of plenty, and urged Congress to adopt protective tariffs for American factories as part of a broad policy suite including government subsidies for new factories, multiyear patent monopolies for new products, and the elimination of then-existing tariffs on some raw materials.

Leaders in the city of Santa Cruz have responded to this hardship in a land of plenty — and to new state laws demanding construction of more affordable housing — with a plan to build up rather than out.

“All of these homeless/Where do they come from?/In this land of plenty/Where nothing gets done,” sings Mellencamp, 71, on the latter track.

My wife and I, on the other hand, are immigrants and have experienced not only a shortage of food but also a total nonavailability of many staple foods that one takes for granted in a land of plenty.