Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pistol reportedly relieved Bronx building superintendent Robert DeJesus of his snowblower. But other city dwellers deferred elaborately to one another on narrow-shoveled walks. In Washington, Abby Stone and her two daughters made sandwiches all Monday morning and spent the afternoon delivering food and blankets to the homeless in their emerald-green Jeep Grand Cherokee...
Russia's pernicious internal rebellion, however, is the most serious nettle for Yeltsin's presidential prospects. Thirteen months of war there has cost 30,000 lives, left 600,000 homeless and deeply undermined the public's confidence in both its politicians and its military leadership. With the new hostage crisis came television images of frightened, exhausted women and children peering from the shattered windows of rebel buses, all of which stoked Russians' anger about the war--and Yeltsin's inability to end it. The main point of his televised scolding of the generals was to deflect that discontent toward...
...along with hundreds of students, alumni and faculty who have signed statements of support, simply don't want to see more homeless on the streets, and we want longtime Cambridge residents to be able to afford their homes. --Shoshana L. Weiner...
...issue, instead, is that many people will have to give up their homes; with rent-control no longer a law in Cambridge, a significant number of these people may be on the streets. Do we really want more homeless in Cambridge...
TEARS CAME TO MY EYES AS I WAS READING about Elisa's fate. If something so cruel happened in a country like the U.S., which can afford a web of social institutions such as the Child Welfare Administration, homeless shelters and the Legal Aid Society--even though they were unable to save Elisa's life--try to imagine what is taking place in countries like mine, where even a pale shadow of that support system is an unreachable dream. DOMINGOS FERNANDO REFINETTI Sao Paulo, Brazil...