Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tourists a day during the peak season, when the sidewalks and beaches are plump with prey. Kavera happily recalls the cameras lying on towels, the bags left unattended. "Tourists can be so stupid," he muses. In January, 26 guests, including Americans, Danes, Austrians and Spaniards, went on a hunger strike at a Copacabana hotel to protest the management's refusal to reimburse them for valuables stolen from 50 of the hotel's 94 safes. "There is no question that crime in Rio, especially violent crime, is increasing," says a U.S. diplomat who has been investigating the issue for the past...
Because of an auto-production glut and a consumer hunger for bargains, the Big Three have become dependent on incentives to move merchandise. Result: even when car sales are decent, profit margins are thin. General Motors said it gave up $5 billion in incentives in 1989, or $900 for every vehicle it sold. Ford pegged its incentives at $1,000 per vehicle, Chrysler at $1,200. As part of its current restructuring, Chrysler last week announced the $825 million sale of its aircraft subsidiary, Gulfstream Aerospace, to a management-led group...
...more years of exile, Lenin finally arrived by train at the Finland Station in Petrograd on April 16, 1917. He climbed onto an armored car and began making a speech. "The people need peace. The people need bread. The people need land," he cried. "And they give you war, hunger, no bread . . . We must fight for the social revolution...
3.We actively sought input from Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) leadership in developing the poster. Before proceeding with this project, we consulted several PBHA Steering Committee members, including one of the directors of the Hunger Action Committee. Through him, we got a student to work with us, one who had a lot of volunteer experience with hunger and homeless programs. Her input helped to guide the project; and her research helped us to develop the list of services included on the poster...
While we agree that it is naive to expect any informational campaign to solve massive social problems, making needed information available to the public is important nonetheless. Creating poster is clearly not a solution to the problem of hunger and homelessness, nor was the intention of this project to lull the Harvard community into a false sense of comfort...