Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countries. Before we pollute the wondrous heavens with the folly of man, surely we should put our heads together to try to find some way to avoid this dismal prospect. As common members of Homo sapiens, perhaps we can also find a way to put our heads together to address some of the urgent problems to be faced in the coming decades by the entire human race in such fields as energy, the environment, the population explosion and world hunger. Little by little such common necessities may lay a restraining hand upon the forces that would move us toward violent...
...homeless this year. But the budgets are lurching upward. Since April, Congress has appropriated $140 million in special aid. New York City's expenditures on its 60,000 homeless people more than doubled this year, to $135 million. Officials at all levels seem to be scrambling to address-or dismiss-the problem. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese caused a furor last week by dubiously claiming that "people go to soup kitchens because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it." In San Francisco, declares Deputy Mayor Bo-tea Gilford, the homeless are "the most difficult...
...safeguards were in operation when the President visited Indianapolis to address the National Forum on Excellence in Education. Every downtown intersection near the motorcade's route was blocked off with snowplows, dump trucks and empty buses. The Secret Service also has added a truck of machine gun-ready agents to every motorcade since...
...what she considers an acceptable rebate on her country's outsize contribution ($1.7 billion more than Britain received this year vs. an even balance for France) to the Community budget. The British, in turn, zeroed in on what they saw as Mitterrand's intransigence in refusing to address the long-term financial problem caused by heavy subsidies to the Community's 8 million farmers. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl avoided the search for scapegoats but observed, "We must grasp that a Europe divided and exhausted by renewed nationalism will exert no influence in the world...
...accused of shooting another man to death on a Harlem street corner. The chief witness against Sweeper was a drug addict named Bobby Edmonds. Police and prosecutors succeeded in keeping his identity secret until the trial began. At that point, the judge disclosed Edmonds' name and address to the defense. Within seven hours Edmonds was found dead, with two bullets in the back of his head...