Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agony to make new friends and lose them so inevitably. Still, if a client calls late to say he did not get his meal, Brinker will go into the kitchen, cook it and deliver it. When money runs short she uses her own. Sometime this year Open Hand will move to a new kitchen capable of producing 8,000 meals a day. "The money is really, really tight," confides chef Chris Medina. "In the past couple of months, we've been on the verge of going under...
...that happened, more than lives would be lost. On New Year's Eve a year ago, two men, both with AIDS, were sitting in front of the TV set, feeling gloomy and hoping they'd have the strength to stay awake until midnight. Then the doorbell rang. An Open Hand volunteer walked in with a box decorated with streamers and balloons. It contained champagne, pate, cheese, truffles, a hat and a noisemaker. The men broke down and cried. This New Year's Eve Open Hand brought the same treat to everybody on its list...
Despite all the hand wringing, base closings often do less harm than good to a community. A Pentagon study found that among 100 base closings between 1961 and 1986, civilians lost 93,424 jobs but gained 138,138 new ones when the installations were turned to other uses. Communities across the country have found imaginative ways to transform the old bases. Forty-two former Pentagon airfields have become local airports. When the government closed Kincheloe Air Force Base near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., eleven years ago, 700 civilian jobs vanished and the surrounding community in the Upper Peninsula lost...
NATION: Facing unmet needs, millions of Americans are lending a helping hand...
Joyous floor traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange celebrated the end of 1988 with a traditional hand-clap ceremony last week as share prices closed at record levels. But their applause could not drown out the rising furor over a stock scandal that has already toppled several of Japan's leading business and political figures. Not since former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was convicted of taking bribes from Lockheed during the mid-'70s have the Japanese been so shaken by disclosures of official wrongdoing. As the scandal spreads, it threatens to tarnish Japan's image abroad and to undermine...