Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hunger in America in times of plenty? Second Harvest, the largest food-bank network in the country, says that about half its 183 food-distribution centers have reported increased demand over the past year. In a study the group produced with Tufts University, it says that with government accounting for only 13.4% of publicly distributed food (down from 22.2% in 1991), the private sector will have to make up for the shortfall by distributing a total of 24.5 billion lbs. of food in the next six years--enough to fill 5 million Army National Guard trucks. Second Harvest says...
Some, however, see a freeloader factor at work. Robert Rector, who follows hunger issues for the Heritage Foundation, says, "As long as you are providing aid without requiring anything in return, the demand of that aid will be inexhaustible." Nevertheless, at least one food-bank manager believes the increased demand is just part of the adjustment that must occur as welfare reform takes hold, a necessary transition to better times. Parke Hinman, who runs a food bank in Montgomery, Ala., has seen demand rise to include families with wage earners. But, he says, "if we can provide them food...
DIED. STANLEY SCHACHTER, 75, social psychologist who found consequence in the quotidian; of colon cancer; in East Hampton, N.Y. Among his seemingly obvious notions: obese people overeat past the point of hunger; academics say "uhm" to buy time; individuals influence the stock market. He modestly called one of his theories "bubba psychology...
...just mean magazines that for whatever reason have a primarily male readership--SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, say, or Rolling Stone or Juggs. I mean magazines that seek to define a masculine life-style, that are about maleness in the way that Martha Stewart Living is about an unnatural hunger for order...
...goal in elementary language courses is for students to gain an intellectual hunger for understanding the language better by taking advanced courses," he says...