Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I think the idea of excluding people on the basis of sexual orientation is not something we can afford to do in a state of crisis," he says.
The place that rescued Anita and her kids that day was the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, which opened in 1983 as a haven where parents on the edge could leave their children for as many as three days at a stretch, at no charge. From the start, it had a...
Dozens of such centers now operate around the U.S., says Jill Kagan of the National Respite Coalition, and there is mounting evidence that without them, the U.S. tally of bumps, bruises and worse would be even more shameful than it is: more than a million cases of child abuse and...
Sara Pearson was working the phones at the crisis nursery the day Anita called about little Vicente. Anita had used the service before, so Pearson knew her story: the rocky marriage, the learning-disabled kids, the paycheck that barely covers the bills even when her husband works two jobs. "She...
Sometimes it is: McCain will often fill his travel time with animated discussions about global hot spots from Chechnya to China. When a local New Hampshire pol asked him a question about Lebanon last month, he unfurled a lengthy answer that included a consideration of whether Syrian President Hafez Assad...