Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much for protect and serve. The HUPD, whose salaries I subsidize, arrest homeless people for taking cans out of dumpsters. They participate in elaborate, risky drug stings with other local police departments. They break up perfectly good, totally harmless parties on a whim. They are even alleged to racially harass students and each other, and then refuse to investigate that properly...
Essentially, this is what it's like to be homeless, I thought, except that at least I had friends to whom I could turn...
...which will be plowed back into the community. Next week she is launching her first assault on U.S. government policy: a three-week "have a heart" campaign exhorting customers to tell members of Congress to spend less money defending Europe and more on children, the elderly, the infirm, the homeless and the unemployed...
Thus began a long-running campaign to turn the Body Shop into an exemplar of what Roddick calls the new business consciousness. The Roddicks launched projects to save the whales, to end the testing of cosmetics on animals, to help the homeless help themselves. As part of their new Trade Not Aid project, they search the world for indigenous people willing to squeeze oil from Brazil nuts, make paper from water hyacinths, weave back scrubbers out of cactus fiber -- anything that could provide the natives with income and the Body Shop with sales...
...brought him almost all that he hoped to tear out of Bosnia. "The Serbs are not going to cease firing until satiated," says a State Department official. After more than nine months of fighting, an estimated 125,000 have been killed, more than a million refugees are homeless, and Bosnian Serbs hold 70% of the republic. An internationally sanctioned accord now would reward the Serbs, who make up only 31% of the Bosnian population, for their aggression. Milosevic would then be another de facto step closer to his dream of creating a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia...