Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trucks to haul away their booty. The response by state and federal government was slow and disjointed. But by week's end President Bush had ordered 14,400 troops into the disaster area with mobile kitchens, tents, electrical generators, water and blankets. Now hundreds of thousands of the newly homeless -- some sleeping in their cars or in campers -- must try to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives from the rubble. Even those lucky enough to have homes may not have electricity for more than a month...
Country music, in case you city folk haven't noticed, is where pop music went to live. When rock 'n' roll settled into the bustling ghettos of white metal and black funk, country claimed the ears of the pop-music homeless -- those who like songs to mix catchy melodies with prickly home truths. By reaching people raised on '60s folk music and Beatles rock, country has become suburbanized. It's as much at home in malls and vans as it used to be in grange halls and pickups...
...taking public transportation, not owning a country house or a car, and touring Europe by secondhand BSA 175 motorcycle. His signature sport is not golf or squash but rock climbing. The new Star Trek is his favorite program. He has taken on cleaning up Times Square and working at homeless shelters rather than organizing charity balls. If the restaurant choice is up to him, it is usually inexpensive and convenient to a subway stop...
...MCLU decided to challenge the state law when Craig Benefit, a homeless man, asked the group for assistance. Benefit has been arrested twice in the Harvard Square area for begging. After his first arrest in March, Wunsch said she got two or three calls from Harvard students who supported Benefit. One student said that the homeless man had repaired her bike, Wunsch said...
...MCLU, too, believes that the law is "an issue of liberties." Wunsch has contacted city officials "a number of times" to recommend that police arrests be limited to those homeless people who threaten or harass passers-by, she said. The city manager's office told Wunsch that a memo would be sent to the police department, but "people go on being arrested," said Wunsch...