Word: makeshift
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...some workers questioned why certain employees stayed in cushy hotel rooms while other slept in dorm rooms and makeshift beds in dining halls...
...Osama bin Laden to face charges related to the blowing up of U.S. embassies in 1998. U.N. officials have warned of a major disaster if emergency aid is not immediately made available to an estimated 600,000 Afghans who have been displaced by the war and are enduring in makeshift border camps in life-threatening conditions...
...Clinton's former Commerce Secretary denounces him and Morgan Stanley apologizes to its clients for paying him to speak, Clinton isn't the only one being damaged. His wife's Senate debut has been spoiled by the calls that are flooding her makeshift work space in the basement of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Hillary last week went to three Brooklyn churches to talk about racial profiling--and ended up answering questions about whether she had properly reported the glittery handbags she'd received...
...many must fend for themselves, struggling to survive. The trauma of losing parents is compounded by the burden of becoming a breadwinner. Most orphans sink into penury, drop out of school, suffer malnutrition, ostracism, psychic distress. Their makeshift households scramble to live on pitiful handouts--from overstretched relatives, a kind neighbor, a state grant--or they beg and steal in the streets. The orphans' present desperation forecloses a brighter future. "They hardly ever succeed in having a life," says Siphelile Kaseke, 22, a counselor at an AIDS orphans' camp near Bulawayo. Without education, girls fall into prostitution, and older boys...
...trying to score some crack. Irwin Hentschel gently coaxes Tammy's story out of her. Drug rehab failed twice, and the latest of her 13 children is a crack baby. Tammy's boyfriend shows up, and the two lead Irwin Hentschel back to their home, a makeshift tent next to an abandoned house. "It's Calcutta," Irwin Hentschel says, looking in. "On the one hand, I want to say, 'Pull yourself together.' And on the other side of it, you think, 'There but for the grace...