Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...televisions, soft lighting and an operating room for emergency surgery. Clinton put on the blue serge flight jacket with the presidential seal and settled in to work the phones. "It's a lot better than Air Elvis," he remarked, a reference to his campaign plane, which resembled a homeless shelter. It is better, and if he's not careful, he will get used...
Businessmen solicit prostitutes. Muggers attack worshipers as they pray. Homeless mothers sleep in pews. Pilferers raid donation boxes. One man senselessly destroys a revered icon...
Currently, federal regulations demand that homeless families get priority for apartments at the housing development...
Already various groups have said the needs of homeless families must not be overlooked if efforts are made to make Mission Hill a mixed-income development...
This scenario isn't nice. In fact, it sounds cold-blooded. But if someone disregarded the welfare of her family by adopting dangerous or infectious homeless strangers, her commitment to abstract fairness and compassion would require a corresponding callousness to her already existing dependents. We might well call this single-minded idealism cold-blooded-- a selfish sentimentality, if you will...