Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they find in New York City, according to Yung Fong Chan, a clergyman whose church serves the Fujianese immigrants. "Mental illness and suicide have both become serious problems," he says. "People, isolated from their families and forced to endure hardship they never imagined, just snap." Then there is the constant pressure from the gangs who brought them over and continue to see the immigrants as better guarantees of meal tickets than their old heroin trade. Twice in the past year, gang members surrounded the Bowery quarters, blocked the fire escapes, then calmly robbed the residents of their savings. The victims...
...Natan Sharansky, former Soviet prisoner of conscience, now Trade and Industry Minister, for "a public effort to recognize our needs." At the White House ceremony, the P.L.O. leader offered a new empathy for Israelis: "We are fully committed to whatever is required from us to achieve real security and constant peace for every Israeli person and for the Israeli people...I will do everything I can so that no Israeli mother will be worried if her son or daughter is late coming home...
What remained constant in Wolfe's mind throughout this creative marathon was a tour two Atlanta friends had given him back in 1989 of the plantations of southwest Georgia, immense tracts of property, dotted with sumptuous homes and extensive outbuildings, maintained at staggering expense by the superrich for the principal reason of shooting quail in season between Thanksgiving and the end of February. "I look for milieu first," Wolfe says, "the setting of a story before the story itself, and I was astonished at those plantations, their psychological location in the past and the tremendous amount of conspicuous consumption required...
...happy either way. Hating a Liston was just as much fun as respecting a Patterson, and just as painful for the victim-challenger. In brilliant sketches of the archetypes, Remnick suggests Liston was trapped in his badness--people wanted him to be a bum forever--while Patterson lived in constant fear of not being good enough...
...night, the tension peaked. According to Klein, the stereo next door was playing loudly, so Klein banged on the wall, an action he considered a sort of international symbol for `turn down the music.' The volume remained constant, so Klein banged again...