Word: down-and-out
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...often been balanced by a swaggering generosity. Ol' Blue Eyes may have charged the gaudy anniversary ring he gave to Ava to her account, being down on his luck at the time. He also played benefits tirelessly for worthy causes, raised millions for charity, and impulsively paid bills for down-and-out show business acquaintances, and sometimes for people whose hard-luck stories he happened to see in newspapers...
...Army, whose headquarters are still in the British capital, encompasses 86 countries in a social-welfare network that includes clinics, centers for alcoholics and drug addicts, homes for the down-and-out and the aged, food services for the poor, and mobile teams to aid refugees and disaster victims. Burrows faces the task not only of continuing such help but of pumping new life into an organization whose ranks are thinning. "If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand," says Burrows...
Ferraro delivered a typical, spunky performance when she visited the down-and-out steel city of Youngstown, Ohio...
Increasingly, the question is whether the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the lender of last resort for the down-and-out nations of the world, has enough money in its coffers to meet the needs of these nations, and if not, what can be done about...
Note the phrase "down-and-out nations of the world"--you'd think the IMF was talking about a global Great Society Program. The words lack even the slightest hint that the member nations of the IMF have anything to do with the disastrous economic conditions of the rest of the world...