Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of alleged conflicts between Au Bon Pain employees and homeless patrons, restaurant management and the Homeless Civil Rights Project (HCRP) have drafted a set of principles guiding treatment of patrons by the staff...
...Pain agreed to write the guidelines in response to a request by the HCRP, a Boston-based organization of homeless and formerly homeless people. HCRP's request came after an increase in the number of complaints of discriminatory incidents following a change in Au Bon Pain management a few months ago, said Jack M. McCambridge, director of HCRP...
...Homeless people were being systematically excluded," McCambridge, said...
Beginning on July 24, 1943, Hamburg was savaged six times in 10 days. Fire storms created by British incendiary bombs raised flames whirling at 100 to 150 m.p.h., with temperatures of 1000 degreesC at their cores. Eight hundred thousand people were left homeless, and some 50,000 were killed. Cities throughout Germany, including Berlin, were similarly razed. The mass bombings would alternate between British night attacks and American daytime raids, coming almost daily...
Until the 1980s such cases were rare. But the sudden surge in TB among AIDS patients as well as the homeless and rural poor has greatly increased the odds. "These are people that have a lot more to worry about than just taking their medicine," notes Dr. Lee Reichman, president-elect of the American Lung Association. Over 20% of TB patients in the U.S. fail to complete their therapy...