Word: doorstep
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...show that former foster kids are at risk of becoming criminals, homeless or pregnant after being "emancipated" from the system, according to child-welfare experts. Until a few years ago, many kids who reached legal age had no help to ease the transition. Somebody would show up on the doorstep of their foster homes and tell them to pack their belongings in a plastic...
Finally some genuine action. The Firebugs torch buildings in this satirical indictment of German apathy as a reaction to the Third Reich held in a fictional city being torn apart (down?) by arson. The arsonists come to your doorstep as homeless men looking for shelter, and they don't leave. See it for the Greek chorus of firemen choreographed by James Carmichael. Or for the all-star cast which includes Alexis Burgess and Emily Knapp. Or for McClelland's original production which includes video and slide projections to set the scene and perhaps a real fire to torch the scene...
...press, the agency asked for a few more days to shore up lingering questions about Lee. The paper ran the story anyway. Though it did not name Lee, the article set off a frenzy of finger pointing. The next morning, two FBI agents showed up on Lee's doorstep brandishing a copy of the Times piece and mentioning the Rosenbergs' fate. Soon Lee's name was linked everywhere to the Times article as the "suspected Chinese spy"--nowhere more prominently than on the Times's editorial page, which lamented the Administration's "lackadaisical" treatment of the case and questioned National...
...however, the danger is immediate and considerable: Not only has she raised questions about her commitment to a soft-money ban by hedging over the agreement, she's allowed Lazio to hijack an issue she once controlled. Lazio met her demands, gathered those signatures, and showed up at her doorstep like a proud cat presenting a hard-won mouse to its horrified owner...
Several years ago, recalls HUPD officer Louis Favreaux, unruly students threw beer bottles on the doorstep of then-Lowell House Master William H. Bossert...