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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that shelters would in any way alleviate the situation borders on callousness. No Family or individual trying to live in a temporary shelter each night, without any guarantee that there will always be room for them, will be able to feel any of the self-esteem or just plain security that allow people to live normal lives. When you have to worry each and every day about where your children will sleep that night, or where food will come from, you can't focus attention on getting a steady job or getting your children to school...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Bush: Gimme Shelters | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

Vice President George Bush, who stood by as the Reagan administration attempted again and again to slash health benefits, reacted predictably. "It's socialized medicine," said Bush, "plain and simple...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Health Careless | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

...Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

...Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

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