Word: centering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Panhandlers in Los Angeles are being surprised by handouts in the form of paper, not paper money but coupons good for a meal at the Weingart Center Cafe. The idea was dreamed up by Maxene Johnston, president of the 600-bed center in L.A.'s skid row, as a new way of encouraging businesses to help the homeless...
...they were sure the handouts would go to a good purpose. In a pilot program last March, she asked businesses to buy books of the $2.50 coupons to be distributed to street people instead of the customary coins. Initial results were so good the program became permanent. Soon the center will offer coupons in various denominations and book sizes. The brightest sign so far is that some panhandlers have begun asking for coupons instead of cash...
...immediate question at the center of this public diplomacy was whether the Israelis would accept Mubarak's invitation to a conference in Cairo to get the peace process going. Shamir's election plan was limited to begin with, then hedged with such stiff conditions -- excluding Arabs in East Jerusalem from the vote, for example -- that it made no headway with the Palestinians. Many in Israel were just as glad...
...fueled by almost 50 lbs. of highly radioactive plutonium 238. Antinuclear groups, led by the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Washington-based Christic Institute, have claimed that the generators are unsafe. Their view is shared by Richard Cuddihy, an analyst with the Inhalation Toxicology Research Center in Albuquerque and the lone dissenter on the federal interagency panel that recommended a go-ahead for the Galileo program. Says Cuddihy: "The risks of the launch are greater than those originally estimated by the committee...
Subramanian, like Griffin, advocates a council newspaper. In addition, Subramanian says he wants a Harvard internal mail service, a student center and efforts to provide cleaner water...