Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their eyes traverse the pavements, inevitably they light upon the homeless--many of them plagued with alcohol problems or by mental illness--and suddenly the formless cloud of anger that hovers over the square takes on a definite shape...
...last year-and-a-half the situation has changed for the worse and that has been created by a substantial influx of unfortunates in various catagories--alcoholics, those afflicted with mental problems and the homeless," says Carl F. Barron, president of Putnam Furniture Leasing Company and president of the area's business association...
...Conquering Space, a girl discovers first lust, learns to drive and watches her family fall apart at pre-moonshot Cape Canaveral. In 12:01 P.M., a twitchy corporate flunky has terminal deja vu, condemned to repeat endlessly one hour of a single day. In To the Moon, Alice, a homeless family takes nightly refuge on the comfy set of a TV sitcom...
...Israelis have erected small tent cities in a dozen sites around the country. The canvas tents are often furnished with little more than mattresses and sleeping bags, and toilet facilities are haphazard. The squatters' resentment is increasing along with their number. Last week near Tel Aviv, 70 of the homeless barricaded themselves on a roof, hurled gasoline bombs at the street and threatened mass suicide until Minister of Housing Ariel Sharon promised to listen to their demands and pay a visit to their tent city...
Soviet immigrants, for their part, are aware that the situation could lead to a nasty backlash. Says Yuri Stern, a Soviet immigrant and adviser to the Knesset: "We are worried that the homeless problem may create divisions. Either we are going to solve it or it will create unrest, and that could be damaging to everyone...