Word: downtrodden
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After shunning inner-city neighborhoods for years, Bush visited four of them last week. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, he toured downtrodden districts that are implementing "Weed and Seed" programs, combining intensive policing with new drug-treatment and job-training services. In Baltimore, Bush was scheduled to speak on health care, but added an announcement of $600 million in disaster loans for Los Angeles...
What's going on here? Has America's traditional compassion for the downtrodden worn thin? Is the country that paid billions to liberate a wealthy oil sheikdom on the other side of the globe suddenly unwilling to feed hungry kids at home...
...very important in terms of planning are your contacts with community people. These people are your best front line of communication. I don't care whether it is the poorest, the most crime-ridden and downtrodden neighborhood or the most successful neighborhood. The contacts can be church leaders, they can be businesspeople or a neighbor who is out there every day washing off the steps and sidewalk. Part of a commander's job is to be able to pick up the phone at 3 o'clock in the morning and say, "Bob, Mary, I need you out here," and know...
...Haiti were ruled by communist dictators rather than military tyrants whose only ideology is power, the multitudes who have set sail from that downtrodden country in a desperate bid for freedom in the past month might well have found refuge in the U.S. Instead, those who dared the perilous 650- mile voyage toward America found that America has no place for them. Since the latest outpouring of Haitian refugees began, the U.S. Coast Guard has plucked them by the thousands from their leaky vessels and held them in detention centers or aboard American ships. And then, until a federal judge...
...fact, dissidence ought to be regarded as one of our finest traditions and proudest exports to the world. The feminist movement began here and spread throughout the world. Our civil rights movement has inspired the downtrodden in dozens of nations, and gay rights was practically invented here. Jefferson, I daresay, would be proud...