Word: continuums
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...attempt to blend community needs withHUD's resources, Cisneros said he has givenpriority to five initiatives: a"continuum-of-care" approach to homelessness,helping people move from lives of transiency andemergency shelter to permanent housing, workingwith public housing residents to help them gaincontrol over their communities and takingaggressive action to crack down on crime in publicand HUD-assisted housing...
...evaluate, on a scale of one to 15, the performance of musician, mathematician or a mile runner, they would not be told to omit the numbers 1, 5, 9 and 13. Not only would such an omission be odd, but it would divide what should be a natural continuum of performance into artificial categories...
...Sunday in June, 1862. The land where they fought had its own history long before the battle and continued to do so even after the guns fell silent. This recognition of history as more than just a series of famous people and momentous events, of history as a continuum of real people and their experiences, makes Svenson's narrative compelling...
...utility company, and eventually defeats the groundhogs. Sometimes, this aspect of Svenson's narrative reads a little like an introductory guide to life on a hay farm. But it becomes clear by the end of the book that Svenson's interaction with the land firmly establishes him in the continuum of history at Cross Keys. He becomes as much a part of the environment as General Trimble and the groundhogs...
...historical reflection. He tells essentially two stories while uniting them behind one central idea. Battlefield reminds us that real history exists beneath the "polemics." It may not put Cross Keys on the popular map of American History, but it does restore a sense of that history as a continuum of past, present and future...