Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PHILADELPHIA--The alumni in Philadelphia are homeless. They have a club and a building fund--$15,000 committed to finding a place that can be called a clubhouse--but chances are the money will never be spent that way. For most of the 1100 Harvard alumni in this city of over two million residents, particularly the more than 800 metropolitan-area members currently on the Harvard Club rolls, the problem of finding a place to gather for lunch or a few drinks is not a pressing one. And yet this lack of a clubhouse and the question of what...
...break the diplomatic deadlock on Cyprus. The Greeks seem willing to partition the island permanently, as demanded by Turkey, but insist on recovering much of the land seized by the Turkish invasion force in 1974. The land was once occupied by 200,000 Greek Cypriots, who are now homeless refugees. The dispute has kept both countries on the verge of war for nearly a year...
...will go even higher. "I feel very insecure," she says. "I never know if the landlady is going to raise my rent again or tell me they're going to tear the place down to build one of those new apartment buildings. Then we'd all be homeless...
...will try to persuade suppliers in the U.S. to buy back some of the homeless goods. Whatever they do not want will have to be peddled to Asian entrepreneurs, some of whom are already expressing interest. Their average offer so far: 10? on the dollar...
...important aspect. For the politics underlying questions of Vietnamese economic development included more even than questions about who shouk, manage development and profit from it. The human, political context AID economists could all but ignore also included the struggle over these questions that was killing people and making them homeless, the struggle in which the government AID belonged to was playing an increasingly dominant part...