Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When people began to compete fiercely for affordable housing, the ones to lose out were the least resourceful: the teenage mothers, the addicted, the abused, the illiterate, the unskilled. The explosion of crack use in the '80s did immeasurable damage; once people were addicted, what employer or landlord would touch them? "Ronald Reagan and the housing cuts are a convenient way to look at the homeless problem," says Mike Neely, an engineer in Los Angeles, who squandered all he had, including his home and family, on cocaine before he turned his life around and founded the Homeless Outreach Project...
Other cities were having the same experience, until it became impossible to sustain the illusion that all a pregnant, crack-addicted teenage prostitute with AIDS needed was a place to call home. From that admission was born the concept of linkage. Rather than merely providing a shelter, homeless advocates are weaving a web. By combining detoxification programs, job training, day care, parenting classes, health care and social services under one roof, they can help the street people who are unwilling or unable to travel all over town to find the services they need -- if those services exist...
...economic mess. Even the most ardent reformers are growing exasperated with inexperienced, often incompetent deputies, who spend more time squabbling over plans to confiscate Communist property and change the name of the city back to St. Petersburg than debating bread-and-butter issues. Sobchak's efforts to crack the whip have provoked complaints of "authoritarianism." He in turn claims that "many of those who call themselves democrats have no notion of democracy...
Since scouting is bound to such traditions, the movement faces the challenge of joining the fast-paced '90s without losing values that should endure. Quaint slogans like "Be prepared" and "Do a good turn daily" may in fact be useful in an age of Middle East crises and crack cocaine. Inner-city scout troops now meet in welfare hotels, in juvenile halls, even on ghetto street corners, where mobile homes serve as assembly halls. "We're not using the Norman Rockwell image anymore," says chief scout executive Ben Love, 60, who has initiated campaigns to combat five "unacceptables": hunger, illicit...
...Governor's drug-fighting strategy emphasized tough law enforcement. Martinez briefly called out the National Guard to crack down on smugglers and rammed through the legislature a law mandating the death penalty for drug kingpins. To make room for a huge increase in arrests for drug-related crimes, he doubled the number of beds in state prisons to 43,000. Martinez crusaded for drug testing in the workplace, including the Governor's office. He made headlines by taking the first test himself. He also expanded drug-prevention education in Florida schools...