Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military exercises on the island. He told me how when he was a three-year-old boy living in Vieques, a Navy representative came to his house informing his mother that her house and land had been expropriated by the Navy. She was given 24 hours to leave her home. The following day Zenon saw his mother weeping inconsolably as a Navy bulldozer toppled their home. Like Zenon, more than 10,000 people were driven from their land and forced to relocate to make room for the new military installations in Vieques which would end up controlling 72 percent...
...show for our $300 million-plus are a few conspiracy theories, a lot of disappointed people and some heavily trafficked web sites. NASA has all but given the last rites to its latest probe now that Mars Polar Lander has for the fourth straight day obstinately refused to phone home. Couple that with the failure three months ago of its sister ship, the Mars Climate Orbiter, and you could forgive space agency officials for feeling more than a little grumpy today...
DIED. CHARLES THOMAS, 64, jazz pianist who played with Duke Ellington and Tony Bennett; of prostate cancer; in Little Rock, Ark. Thomas turned down an offer to fill in for the Duke permanently after his death, in favor of playing small clubs in his home state of Arkansas...
...first met Quentin, he declared, "I don't believe in abroad--I think everyone speaks English behind our backs!" After the success of Servant, Quentin was invited to New York. So from Chelsea in London he came to the Chelsea Hotel in New York--where upon entering he declared, "Home!" If Quentin ever harbored a regret in his life, it was that he had not found New York earlier...
WHAT, US WORRY? Despite a year full of news of natural disasters, from storms to fires to earthquakes, emergency preparedness is not a high family-agenda item. Half of Americans believe a disaster is not likely to strike their home (including 30% of those already hit), and 55% haven't even discussed disaster planning with their families (including 37% of those already victimized). An Independent Insurance Agents of America poll found that such planning is most neglected (69%) in the Northeast and least neglected (45%) in the West...