Word: handouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Without a handout from the IMF, though, domestic pressure may yet push Moscow to crank up its printing press. "Primakov will have to print new money," says Zarakhovich. "There's nothing left to sell...
...resource center," located in a World Vision warehouse, is colorfully stocked with shelves of notebooks, vats of pencils, writing paper, dictionaries. It mimics a retail center, minus price tags. "Teachers love the concept," explains SHOPA president Steven Jacober. "A visit seems more like a shopping trip than a charity handout...
...family started Rowe Concessions, a vending-machine-supply company that now has 30 employees. They got a big boost from the city of Atlanta with contracts to supply municipal buildings and the city-run airport with vending machines. The contracts end in 1999. "I don't want a handout. Just level the playing field," Rowe says. "People in charge of procurement are going to deal with people they know socially...
Rumor: Giuliani strangled a homeless man to death after the hapless wretch begged for a handout without saying please. Fact: No such incident has occurred, at least not recently. The ugly rumor may have been sparked by the shooting by an off-duty police officer of an unarmed "squeegee man," one of those aggressive supplicants who threaten windshields with slimy rags or sponges unless compensated, in conjunction with the fact that soon after the mayor came to office, most squeegee men and other homeless people mysteriously disappeared. But the suggestion that the mayor and some shadowy private army roam...
...said counseling services will be availablefor any Cabot House resident and last nightstudents received a handout detailing ways to dealwith a traumatic experience...