Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Ryan, her songs are "an expression of day-to-day life--men, women, roommates, friends, hiking boots, the homeless...Songs just come out at the strangest times--walking to class, during all-nighters." Her musical influences still include Joni Mitchell ("you can't get away from her; she's the folk goddess"), Shawn Colvin and various jazz and gospel performers. But these influences play little more than a subconscious role in Ryan's song-writing process. "I don't try to imitate," she says. "The one time I tried to imitate Haydn for class, the T.F. said...
...income tenants, on the other hand, support the system--and for the first time last election voted a pro-rent control majority into the council. Over the past month, many have testified to the council that without the low rents guaranteed by the rent control system, they would be homeless...
...trash for recycling. More than eight tons of high-grade ^ white paper are now recovered every month from our headquarters building in New York City. About 11,000 bottles and cans -- each redeemable for 5 cents -- are collected for We Can, a nonprofit organization that aids the city's homeless. "This is a serious program," says Green Team leader Laura Conboy, TIME's opeations manager. "It is going to be part of how we work here forever...
...perceptions are easygoing and unsatirical, though in New York City he does notice that the middle class spends almost no time at street level, which is left to muggers and the homeless. In Guntersville he lives with a borrowed dog (as a people-meeting device, a good substitute for a boat), hears his speech patterns slowing and finds the local religiosity more comfortable than off-putting. Now and then he does a shrewd job of reporting, as when he describes tensions among Korean immigrant men in Seattle, trying successfully to make money and unsuccessfully to rule their wives and daughters...
...proceeds, collected from entry fees to the games and contributions made by dozen of local businesses, are estimated at between $1000 and $2000 and will go to an emergency homeless shelter fund operated by the PBHA, the campus' largest community service organization...