Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cellucci, on the other hand, wants to minimize time-limit exceptions for families that are ill-equipped to move into the workplace. These families may indeed have problems, but he thinks that the state should no longer subsidize them. Whether he has plans to deal with hunger and housing crises for poor children--crises that would result from unqualified enforcement of the welfare reform time limits--is an entirely different question...
...only way to maintain this fragile, prestige-based self-image, then, is to acquire more prestige. Hence, the paradox: The constant hunger always leaves one, well, hungry...
...writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched narrative The Endurance (Knopf; 212 pages; $29.95), adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial proposition. Scott's last journal, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a filmed tribute drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had trekked to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, formed a syndicate before his 1914 voyage to capitalize on movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a self-assured and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic...
...hunger sets in, a visit to the snack bar is in order. Here hot dogs revolve on metal spokes, popcorn gyrates and slushies come in watermelon, raspberry, rainbow, cherry and lime. Bacon cheeseburgers, pizza and a plethora of ice cream bars are also available to the overexerted individual. When skating becomes mundane, Wal-Lex offers, quite randomly, candlepin bowling in an effort to entertain its clientele...
...states, the 1998 elections are really about 2000. In another way too: having the governorship helps parties organize for presidential campaigns. And Americans' appetite for Republicans in the Governor's mansion may betray a hunger for a Republican in the White House--a Republican like, say, Texas Governor George W. Bush, who is expected to whip his Democratic opponent this year and, according to polls, would beat Al Gore in a head-to-head presidential race. Since his election as Governor in 1994, Bush has avoided the mistakes that doomed his father: he has learned and relearned domestic policy, moved...