Word: loiterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of emotional scale. This is not a movie of halfway measures. The wicked are irredeemably wicked, the good unalterably good. No one is permitted to slip into anything a little more comfortable and up to date, like ambiguity or absurdism. And no one is permitted to loiter palely among his half-formed thoughts...
...spread of the drug. In Los Angeles, raids by narcotics squads helped reduce the number of "rock houses" from 1,000 in 1984 to about 400 today. The business has merely moved to the streets. Teenage salesmen with rock hidden in their pockets--or sometimes their mouths--now loiter at corners and against fences. As buyers drive by slowly in cars, a quick exchange of cash for crack can take place through an open window...
Shopkeepers along Dunster St. said they feel the fires have definitely been set, and claim that teenagers who loiter in the area are responsible...
Anthony Alvarado, 41, was appointed chancellor of New York City schools last spring after working educational magic as superintendent of East Harlem's District Four, an area where rubble spills out of abandoned buildings and youths loiter in empty lots. When Alvarado, son of Puerto Rican immigrants, was assigned to District Four in 1973, it ranked dead last among the city's 32 districts on reading test scores: only 18.5% of students read at grade level or above. Last year the district ranked 15th in the city, and 48.5% of its students were up to par in reading...
...last year. A decline in world prices for such exports as coffee, cotton and sugar is a factor in the slump, but the war has brought new investment to a halt and driven many businessmen to close their doors and flee the country. Today guerrilla groups in Usulutan department loiter openly along the nation's most important highway, occasionally burning buses and trucks, collecting "revolutionary taxes" from travelers and delivering political lectures while Salvadoran army soldiers watch from a prudent distance. In one such incident, about 40 guerrillas armed with M-16s and older carbines blocked the road...