Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holding a lobster-and-champagne dinner the same day as a campus-wide fast to raise awareness of hunger...
...cocaine. Inner-city scout troops now meet in welfare hotels, in juvenile halls, even on ghetto street corners, where mobile homes serve as assembly halls. "We're not using the Norman Rockwell image anymore," says chief scout executive Ben Love, 60, who has initiated campaigns to combat five "unacceptables": hunger, illicit drugs, child abuse, youth unemployment and illiteracy. During Love's tenure, scouting has also developed coeducational "Career Awareness" Explorer posts, in which young people contemplating such careers as medicine, law enforcement and computers can meet professionals in those fields...
...headline last week on the front page of Pravda, the Communist Party daily, posed the question haunting all Soviet consumers as they prepare for the coming winter: ARE WE THREATENED WITH HUNGER? President Mikhail Gorbachev has roundly dismissed what he calls "conjectures of a coming famine." In industrial centers like Leningrad, however, local authorities plan to introduce wide-scale rationing to avert the worst consumer shortages since the end of World...
However, citizen participation at shelters and in petitioning legislators about the homelessness problem can help to alleviate the situation, said Leslie Samuelrich, director of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness...
Middleton, who himself volunteers at the Haven for Hunger soup kitchen in Peabody, said many students jump at the chance to "share a little of themselves with someone else...